Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Wade" <tim.wade@n...> wrote:

> I really wouldn't blame the LPC -- it is very likely that the PC is
> loosing the characters...
> 
> We had a FAST PC logging data coming from a GPS receiver at 56K, so not
> very fast really, but come hell nor high water we could NOT get the PC
> to collect all the characters. Eventually we got a HIGH QUALITY
> USB<=>RS232 interface and that worked fine... Windows is NOT very real
> time at all... In fact it is almost completely useless for any sort of
> time constrained operation at all. Just because it is popular does not
> mean that it works very well...

Exactly what I found out short after my post! Switched to a known good
(and really expensive) UART card and now it seems to work fine :)
Crappy old 16550 UARTs...

/PH