On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 9:04:06 PM UTC-5, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:23:13 -0700, evilwulfie 
> <[email protected] <javascript:>> declaimed the 
> following: 
>
> > 
> >Maybe raw parallel data between the BBBs using GPIO pins. 
> > 
>
>         I hadn't visualized that, but for one-way traffic... If a PRU can 
> get 
> access to 17 GPIOs, 16 of them adjacent, loading the adjacent 16 of them 
> with two bytes of data, then toggling the 17th as a data strobe, might be 
> feasible. Say a 50MHz net rate for loading 16-bit data and setting strobe 
> (~4 PRU instructions), end rate 800Mbps. Highly dependent on being able to 
> transfer 16-bit from memory to GPIO without needing to shift left/right... 
>
> Nope, they do not have 17 fast GPIOs out of one PRU or into another PRU.  
They do give you 8, however, which OUGHT to be enough.  You could clock 8 
bits across at insane rates.  Probably 40 MHz is not unreasonable.  Just 
give a clock cycle to allow data to settle, sample it and send acknowledge 
to the sender.

Jon

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