AVR-Chat

Agreed.  But I was giving an example of the math to show that the AVR 
is indeed fast enough to time.

1400m/s, or about 3000 MPH, is still doable with even a slow 
processor.

Mike


--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Dave VanHorn <dvanhorn@c...> wrote:
> At 05:34 AM 3/10/2004 +0000, upand_at_them wrote:
> >Even a slow processor should be fast enough.  Let's look at the
> >math...
> >
> >An object going 100 MPH will travel 1 inch in 0.568 ms.  Assuming a
> >slow 1 MIPS processor, you'd get 568 instructions (counts) in that
> >time.
> 
> Bullets are typically fast, designing around 1400M/S at the high 
end 
> wouldn't hurt.
> A 100 MPH bullet wouldn't be all that interesting.