nasa-jpl / fastcat

C++ EtherCAT Device Command & Control Library
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Is fastcat intended for flight? #99

Closed mcevoyandy closed 1 year ago

mcevoyandy commented 1 year ago

Maybe I missed this reading through the documentation, but is fastcat being built with the intention of using it for flight? If so, what's the target data and class of the software?

alex-brinkman commented 1 year ago

Fastcat is a EtherCAT device control framework mainly deployed to support robotics research and testbed applications. If you wanted to use if for any embedded application including flight, I would avoid fastcat which is designed to be highly flexible and uses STL containers and instead consider using jsd which is simpler, safer, but less flexible.