Jon, Rafael, et al IIRC CAN is 1 Mbit/sec.
Philosophically I'd opt for KISS. (keep it simple stupid). No more complexity than is necessary to get the job done. To me that sounds a lot like raw packets point to point. Dave On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > Rafael Skodlar wrote: > >> I would not want to rely on UDP for real time applications unless >> it's >> used on an isolated network with a limited number of well behaving >> nodes. > Yes, you would have to do it that way. > >> >> Gigabit ethernet would be better but then which microcontroller >> will be >> able to run with it? 32 bit only: >> http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/application.jsp? >> nodeId=0220502E112E1F >> > This gets quite expensive, at least for a while still. >> How about using some other bus for real time applications? I'm sure >> there is a better bus for the price (CAN?) > I think CAN is much slower, and the hardware support is at a > MUCH lower level. It isn't much more sophisticated than a UART, > thus software overhead. > > Jon > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a > browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
