From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.70.124.135 with SMTP id mi7mr10178852pdb.9.1410392386039; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!h15no73535igd.0!news-out.google.com!ht4ni3615igb.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:39:44 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: STM32F4 Discovery, communication and libraries Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:40:26 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <1cjwzr30b24xy.11kpydntxhfo5$.dlg@40tude.net> <929e9226-e4aa-474e-843c-68ed800eefad@googlegroups.com> <5b5583ca-c7b2-40be-9090-6253f0514db5@googlegroups.com> <7feccd2d-dcfd-405e-ae5d-e27d6662daa9@googlegroups.com> <0Y2Qv.126054$JY.61356@fx16.fr7> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.79.221.165 X-Trace: sv3-PvvQINdckHOWkFOgGzgguHAJZZi8pBggjJPwEN3UCAnWhlaek6X+h8G0FwNCIeMTlyzpkTS+R1ySK7n!Slx+3rq6nwp5rvWNvp4SB1Z85NIfCBiE+SeaIuPk8Pusyg2ZQ2IF5McqT3VmogeOklYI/vGCmp7p!7BDPmDxi7VA3B5+EGtBiC05CUwnH X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2530 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:188959 Date: 2014-09-10T19:40:26-04:00 List-Id: On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:58:36 GMT, Brian Drummond declaimed the following: >On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:56:19 -0700, Roy Emmerich wrote: > >> I know that in a few years from now microcontrollers will have multiple >> cores as a standard offering. Once this occurs it will then be possible >> to simultaneously sample as many channels as there are processor cores. >> If all my software is written with threading in the first place then >> nothing needs to be changed. > >They already do have multiple cores, if you buy them from http:// >www.xmos.com/ > Probably too small for this application, but there is also the Parallax Propeller -- which has 8 cores... and NO interrupts. The concept is that one assigns a core to a polling loop rather than triggering an interrupt. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/