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Architecture
general purpose communications - only this distributed patch
panel. This is important because it means there are no
information bottlenecks or shared resources to saturate. As a
consequence, the hardware can be extended indefinitely without
degrading the system's performance. If we want to implement
more behaviors we simply add more processors.
The actual processor boards are mounted on the surface of
the robot to allow easy access. There is space around the
periphery of the robot for 24 processor boards, but some of
these slots are filled by other types of hardware (such as
mutants). Originally we had intended to map directl ...