Are you saying that the maximum realizable GPIO *input* rate to the PRU is 
about 6MHz Charles?

On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 9:56:21 PM UTC-6, Charles Steinkuehler 
wrote:
>
> Yes, the latency for PRU access to the GPIO pins is substantially higher 
> than 2 or 3 (PRU) cycles.  If you're doing writes, they get pipelined, 
> so as long as you're not saturating the L4 interconnect (or competing 
> with some other resource that *IS* saturating L4), the PRU write will 
> complete in 2 clock cycles (on the PRU side), but it will take about 
> another 100 nS before the write is actually seen at the GPIO output pin. 
>  The PRU can continue executing instructions in the ~100 nS it takes for 
> the write to actually show up at the GPIO pin. 
>
> Reads always take about 165 nS, and the PRU stalls while waiting on the 
> return data. 
>
> Details start at line 135 in the file linked by Przemek: 
>
>
> https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/blob/master/src/hal/drivers/hal_pru_generic/pru_generic.p#L135-L163
>  
>
> On 11/26/2014 11:35 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: 
> > Charlie Steinkuehler researched this and it turns out that it's 
> > complicated: the hardware is pipelined and the actual latency numbers 
> > depend on the burst length and the general system state when going 
> > through the L4 GPIO: 
> > 
> > 
> https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/blob/master/src/hal/drivers/hal_pru_generic/pru_generic.p
>  
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Karl Karpfen <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014 16:11:52 UTC+1 schrieb TJF: 
> >>> 
> >>> There're just a few header pins usable for PRUSS low latency GPIO, 
> when 
> >>> LCD isn't disabled. All other GPIOs can get accessed over the OCP 
> master 
> >>> port with 2 or 3 cycles of latency. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> According to 
> >> http://e2e.ti.com/support/arm/sitara_arm/f/791/p/384515/1356079.aspx 
> the 
> >> latency is much higer. For PRU-mapped GPOs there are two cycles (of 200 
> MHz 
> >> of PRU), for GPOs accessed via global address space it is even more 
> higher. 
> >> 
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