[Dprglist] FPGAs in robots

[Ralph Hipps]

Kumar,

FPGAs have their advantages & disadvantages.

Pros: speed, predictable latency, highly parallel architecture.

Cons: longer learning curve, lack of sw libraries.

They’re great for hardware stuff, like reading encoders & lots of PWM
outputs, or IO expansion. They can do many things in parallel with no
impact on latency, no need for interrupts, etc.

But unlike an Arduino or a Pi there are no prebuilt code libs for reading
sensors, etc. You would need to code that up yourself.

One thing to consider would be to use them with a micro to offload time
critical hardware functions, but still leverage the sw libs for the micro
where needed.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Ralph


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