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13 years ago

High Speed Embedded Memory

Hello guys, We are in process of designing a new embedded high performance data acquisition platform. Basically, we have let’s say 400 ADC channels which each channel is 16 bit wide and we need to...
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13 years ago

I'd get PIO transfers working first with the cpu spinning waiting for the data request, then time them excluding the actual data transfer (which dma would do faster) - that will show you whether what you are trying to do is achievable.

PIO transfers only need a relatively simple driver - I can't remember the actual details it was over 10 years ago.