I have an 5.2 liter v8 engine powered car from 1996. It has an external CNG system that powered by atmega64, which is technically got lower specifications than arduino uno.
It works like this: reading the gasoline injector opening rate and forwarding it to CNG injector with a little bit trim.
what would like to do is, create the exactly the same setup but do the injection with lower rate. basically you can call it as a "fuel economizer" or "injection trimmer"
So hence this is gonna be an automotive application, i'm asking you guys to which board i should begin with? there is gonna be 8 injectors, 8 mosfet drivers. so i need min 16 I/O pins. also reliability and speed is a must
whilst I applaud the idea of fuel economizer, I feel those cars should be recycled now or transfered into a museum of one of the numerous causes for climate change and no longer hit the road...
btw, that's more like validation instead of question. going to start with arduino due, what you say? my only concern is bootup time. i didn't used due in a major project before.
Not sure about the due but the long startup time on arduino microcontrollers is just because of the boot loader. Absent the bootloader the start up time is measured in uS.