[time-nuts] precision timing pulse

jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 16 23:47:52 EST 2016


On 11/16/16 1:03 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
> chris at chriscaudle.org said:
>> but once you get to most of the ARM processors it is harder to make them
>> deterministic because of caches.
>
> There are many ARM SOC chips that are half way between an Arduino and a
> Raspberry Pi.  They have GPIO and various serial ports and counter/timers.
> They don't have USB, Ethernet, or a display controller.  They do have on-chip
> RAM and Flash.

The teensy from PJRC is a good example - uses the Arduino dev 
environment and has all the easy to use libraries, but is a LOT faster 
and has better peripherals. Or you can use other dev environments. It's 
an ARM Cortex something or other.

<$20

The BeagleBoard Black is a bigger, more capable example.. You can 
actually run a *nix on it, but has device drivers and such for lots of 
GPIO and timers.


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