<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Barry asked for a summary of beagleboard
I/O options for our daughtercard.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Here's what I've found:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The favored interface is likely the
two McBSPs (multi-channel buffered serial ports) in the expansion connector.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The McBSPs have independent transmit
and receive data pins with one bit transferred each clock cycle.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When I used TI's McBSPs in a DSP board
we found that these serial ports were practically limited to clock speeds
of 50 to 60 MHz.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We decided to run things at 33 MHz and
that was with controlled traces and no connectors.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For back of the envelope calculations
using both ports I'd not expect more that 50 Mbit/sec bidirectional data
rates between the beagleboard and daughtercard.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Testing may reveal that we can safely
increase this clock speed but for now I wouldn't bet on it.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">-Adrian (KC0YOI)</font>
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