MPC823: i2c-algo-8xx read interrupt?
bart at ardistech.com
bart at ardistech.com
Tue Feb 12 03:19:17 EST 2002
Dan Malek wrote:
>
>
> So, you think interrupt and management overhead of the software to send a
> couple of bytes on a 100k serial interface is free? The chip designers are
> often upset when you don't use every feature, but you need to apply some
> real systems engineering methods and analyze how all of these little things
> help (or hurt) your application.
>
Most important reason for me to do the i2c with the RISC is the scalebility:
if the application needs to do a lot more i2c io as expected it won't affect
the overal performance.
Bart
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