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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

UDP delay to send

Hi, I am using NicheStack with the Altera Cyclone III NiosII Embended Evaluation kit. My application principale is to get measurements and send it each 1ms with UDP_send(). I have done it. ...
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14 years ago

The udp_send() function also forms IP header, calculates it's checksum, plus forms UDP header and calculates all the payload and header checksum. This takes time, so consider that doing measurements.

I would offer to use hardware UDP implementation.