Lpc2000

At 11:49 AM 4/11/05 +1000, Peter Jakacki wrote:
>Philips might wonder how important is I/O speed really, what's all the
>gripe about. I'd say it isn't important, -except- for embedded real-time
>control. Now which market did Philips intend these chips for?

Well I do embedded real-time control and pin toggling speed is not of great 
importance for what I do.  Different problem areas have different 
constraints.  I would expect that in some real-time embedded environments 
that the capability to do high rate pin toggling would be seen as a reason 
for caution since high toggling rates may imply fast edge rates with all 
the implications that those have.

I don't think Philips was expecting people to do a lot of high rate 
bit-banging with these chips, but high-rate bit-banging and embedded 
real-time are two different, but not exclusive, markets.  You can have 
either one without the other.

Robert

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