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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: PC/104 ADC recommendations
From: Matthew Harrell <>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:44:36 -0500
>> General requirements
>>  need to be able to capture 3 or 4 simultaneous readings
>>  12 bit resolution or more would be nice
>>  want to take readings from the ADC about every 10 microseconds
>>  would prefer an interrupt based system over polling
>
> err... interrupt every 10usec? That's 100,000 Interrupts per sec. My 
> experience with the ts7200 leaves me to think that the max interrupt rate 
> is more like 10,000 per sec. I think you'd need hardware that can do the 
> timing and sampling, stuffing the samples into a buffer.

Actually more what I meant is that the ADC could take a sample on each 
channel every 10 microseconds, store it in a FIFO of, say 256 per channel,
and then generate an interrupt when the FIFO is full.  Does that sound 
more reasonable?

-- 
  Matthew Harrell
  Bit Twiddlers, Inc.
  

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