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Keep critical joysticks on their own USB port. If using more than one USB device, i.e., multiple joysticks, distribute the USB load across all the laptop USB ports that you have.
Choose "USB Settings" -> "USB selective suspend setting". Choose "Change advanced power settings". (Note: this means you have to be really conscientious about keeping the laptop plugged in at ALL times (Pit, Queue, Field). Select "Never" for everything if you know what's good for you (okay this isn't a USB thing, but hey). For your current Power Plan choose "Change Plan Settings". A LabVIEW default program download takes 25 sec., but Building it still takes just as long and you want a good computer to run LabVIEW (the default code takes 1 min to build on an i3, but 7 min to compile on a Classmate Atom). A roboRIO Reset takes ~6 sec (restarts just the user code). A roboRIO boot or cold start takes 20 to 30 sec. The FPGA runs at 40MHz (sampling at 25ns). The roboRIO is between 4x and 10x faster than the old cRIO depending on operation. roboRIO Specification Flyer (August 2013). Note: a higher resolution poster-sized layout schematic is Fall 2014 Beta Presentation 2015 v2.ppt - Workshop presentation on the then new 2015 system. Fall 2014 Beta Testing the New 2015 Control System - A summation of what we've learned from our Fall 2014 testing, some videos demonstrating test results, photos of components/students/setups/test instrumentation/etc. HOW TO INSTALL FRC DRIVER STATION 2016 SOFTWARE
Fall 2015 Beta Testing 2016 Changes to the Control System - A summation of what we've learned from our Fall 2015 testing of software updates and new hardware. Fall 2016 testing of 2017 season software refinements. Fall 2017 Beta Testing 2018 Control System Updates - Fall 2017 testing of software updates and new hardware. HOW TO INSTALL FRC DRIVER STATION 2016 HOW TO
For LabVIEW programmers here are how to do some common LabVIEW robot operations