Hi, the original author didn't include the <[email protected]> email in his reply, so I am posting this as an all-in-one answer.
Mar 1, 2020, 06:20 by [email protected]: > > > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 4:27 PM cern via Machinekit <> > [email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am all in for cheap, low entry hardware. Don't care if it is PIC or ARM. >> I think that for most cases it would be enough to have just serial >> connection between PC/SBC and this board. But some simple Ethernet based >> communication >> > > In today"s world and tomorrow's world, the only serial interface that makes > sense in a new design is USB-C. This goes duble if it has to connect to a > PC. Soon this will be the only data connector PCs have. What is quickly > becomming universal is USB 3.1 protocol over a USB-C connector. It can do > 10 Gigabits persecond. But just as importantly it can be VERY low latency > with > isochronous transfers and there are specs for buffer times on hubs. > > Anything designs not using USB-C will be > obsolete> in a few years. A > limitation ss that USB-C cables can only be 3M long. Ethernet can go for a > few kiliometers if you use fiber but is slower and few computers will have > Ethernet in the future. > I have one USB-C connector with ThunderBolt capability on my notebook, but I have no idea if it even works as so far I had no device to connect to it. To me it sounds little bit like the predictions that we will travel to Moon bases for our holidays. But, to allow deterministic (up to a point) communication over USB-C sounds interesting. Do you have some link for papers (or other documents) on this subject? (For when the time allows or the strike of fancy happens.) Cern. > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/machinekit/M1MzPd---3-2%40tuta.io.
