Visteon VCS

[David A. Cooley]

Funny though... did you hear about the bug they had last week or the week 
before?
They were fine in qualifying, but started blowing motors in the actual 
race... seems some moron flashed the wrong program into EVERY one of them 
after qualifying.

At 04:00 PM 10/2/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I was just reading an article in RaceTech - www.racetechmag.com  , on the
>Visteon Vehicle Control System for the FORD F1 cars. O.K it's certainly not
>GM but it is an impressive beast.
>
>Here's some figures -
>
>12 x Microprocessors (Motorola 509 Power PC)
>1 x 32bit DSP (100Mips)
>70Mb of Memory (RAM & EEPROM)
>12channel 12bit,1.5MHz data logger
>12channel 16bit,100KHz data logger
>20 x Low Impedence Inj Drivers
>2 wire serial comms between sensors (Upto 120)
>246 pin connector
>
>I wonder what Delphi has as the competitor to this.
>
>They also talk about a non-contacting Torque Sensor, which was used by John
>Force to measure the Torque out of his Funny Car (I'd love to know the
>results).
>
>Ross Myers

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