DIY DRONES: Parallella, the ultimate flight controller brain?

GPS · May 1, 2013

In october I helped fund the parallella one board computer. There are many of those around right now, the raspberry pi, the udoo, beagleboard black, but this one is different, because it mates a super-powerful Xilinx Zynq 7020 application processor, which is a 1 ghz dual core Arm A9 (same as in ipad 2) with a FPGA fabric the size of a medium fpga chip. This makes it a highly flexible processor, one that in itself could surpass most of the ARM based flight controllers on the market right now. The fpga fabric in itself is something that could prove very useful, since it can perform signal processing with a breeze, it comes extremely natural to fpga to do filtering, pid and such real-time processes, with minimal latency.
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Tiger · May 1, 2013

This is cool, but Parallax is already doing this in a big way with the Propeller chip. It's very open and there is already massive support for it and the chips are super cheap. Development tools are a fraction of this guys $99.

...Tiger

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