On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:50 AM, bownes <[email protected]> wrote: > That would all depend upon the interconnect strategy, which hasn't reached > consensus either. > > Based on the early module list, a bus probably isn't necessary, and > individual ribbon cable and/or coax will do if speeds stay low.
I think the goal on should be to have the least interaction between modules as possible. If you have a shared backplane or shared ribon cable then system level integration will be a mess. If this project is successful there might be a half dozen module types and a couple revisions of each one. I doubt anyone will have a test lab where we can test all posable module-to-module interactions. So these have to be mostly independent modules that send only minimal information. Development might halt because in order to design a module you'd need to own an example of every other module. I put two requirements in my proposal to address this problem 1) Modules shall NOT expose their internal design to the system bus 2) Modulas must perform some potentially useful default mode function when used stand-alone, disconnected from the system bus These two requirements are aimed to make testing much simpler or even posable when none of the designers are colocated ===== Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
