Re: Strange bug on EP9302-based custom board

["Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>" <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>]

Ian Caddy wrote:
> Jay Monkman wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > That's a real waste of CPU time. You'll end up spending a significant 
> > amount of
> > time in interrupt processing.
> >     
> > 10ms is the default tick rate for RTEMS, and a pretty standard tick 
> > rate for
> > other OSes. Until recently, that was the rate for Linux on x86.
>
> We use a 1ms tick since our systems (Power Utilities) SCADA like 1ms 
> resolution on all digital inputs and a lot of our timeouts are based on 
> small millsecond times.  This is on a 90MHz Coldfire processor with no 
> dramas.

Most if not all of the systems I know that OAR has consulted on use 
either a 1 millisecond or 500 microsecond tick.  FOr the 500 microsecond 
tick, the CPU has to be pretty fast and the application had to have good 
reason.

> regards,
>
> Ian Caddy


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