[net2-wg] 600 pps, high throughput

[Jonathan Hui]

On 3/13/06, Joe Polastre <joe at polastre.com> wrote:
> If you are sampling at a really high rate constantly, you are no
> longer a low power sensor network which makes this conversation moot.
>
> You have a choice:
> (1) use DMA on the radio
> -OR-
> (2) use DMA on your sensors, where sensors is plural.

This is exactly the choice I was conveying. Hence the tradeoff that I mentioned.

> I can't believe how unnecessarily complicated things have become when
> a simple piece of additional hardware simply solve the problem, or
> when you can tradeoff one resource for another.

It was never complicated. I was just stating a tradeoff that one has
to consider. If you have a choice, then its an issue to consider.

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Jonathan W. Hui
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