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10 years ago

Is an FPGA the Best Option for High I/O (120-150 Input) Prototype?

Hi All, I would like to give some context of my project first before asking the question so you can understand where I am currently at. context I am starting to create a prototype of ...
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10 years ago

An important question you did not answer; How are these components distributed relative to each other, and what is the environment, eg., lots of RFI from motors?

This sounds more like a job for microcontrollers located at each sensor connected together with a robust industrial bus, eg., CAN bus.

FPGAs are good for interfacing to devices with "weird" characteristics, or high-speed I/O. Your task sounds well-suited to multiple inexpensive microcontrollers.

Cheers,

Dave