On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Miguel Saiz Arnedo wrote:

> I installed RTLinux on my AMDk6 430 MHZ with 128 Mb RAM and up to
> now I've just been probing with the example programs.  I have tried
> the hello.c with various thread periods and observed that when I try
> periods of less than 10us my system crashes. Is this a normal limit?
> Is it a hardware limit or is it an RTLinux limit?

Normal limit for a PC architecture.

> If I can't schedule periodic threads with less than 10us period that will mean
> that if the thread is used to aquire samples from a DAQ board I will have a
> 100KHz sampling rate limit, which I find a bit low for my needs.Is it possible
> to achieve higher sampling rates with RTLinux?

Try the Comedi library <http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi/>: it has drivers
for lots of DAQ cards, and is RTAI and RTLinux compatible. If your DAQ
card supports autonomous on-board sampling (i.e., the card does the
high-frequency sampling, and returns a buffer to your software), you
can use that feature.

Herman

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