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Re: faster I/O! How fast?

2005-08-19 by Karl Olsen

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Gus" <gus_is_working@y...> wrote:
> The new LPC with USB mention that they have faster I/Os because
> they are connected directly to the processor bus!
> 
> If the peripheral bus frequency is same as the processor then how
> it is going to be faster?

Because the AHB bridge and AHB-to-VPB bridge add five clocks to each 
load and store, so that a load takes 8 clocks and a store 7 clocks.
Directly on the memory bus, a load takes 3 clocks and a store 2
clocks.

Karl Olsen

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