NEW 2009 Control System Released

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Originally Posted by Adam Y.

That renders the point of having an FPGA moot.

It absolutely does not - depending on what is done inside the FPGA, it could be a great tool - for example, if the WPI libraries were implemented on the FPGA, or the adc/encoder/gyro/competition mode code are on the FPGA, it is considerably faster than a microcontroller AND frees considerable processing room, as well as saves time coding. If the FPGA is designed to automatically do many of the low level functions that we as programmers normally have to wrangle with (like what Kevin Watson's libraries are used for), it would be an incredible help. Imagine never having to write code to interface with the camera, or have the gyro angle automatically calculated for us instead of having to do it ourselves - there are much greater problems that could then be tackled.