Lpc2000

At 10:01 AM 11/23/04 +0000, you wrote:
>Could someone please tell something more about these race condition ?
>Both SPI and Timers
>Could it not be avoided ?

The SPI race condition is explained in the errata sheets, the timer issues 
is not officially documented in an errata yet but an explanation is 
contained in a file in the files section

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lpc2000/files/Timer_issue.pdf


The basic problem in both cases is the same.  If a register is read at the 
same time as the underlying HW attempts to update it the update gets 'lost'

Robert

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