[net2-wg] 600 pps, high throughput

[Joe Polastre]

This is so silly.  The only people using DMA in TinyOS are Moteiv,
Ben, August, and a bunch of mechanical engineers in Paul Wright's
group.  If you're using DMA, commit the code and let people use it. 
If not, again, this is a moot and sily conversation.

-Joe

On 3/13/06, Jonathan Hui <jwhui at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Jonathan W. Hui
> jwhui at cs.berkeley.edu
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jwhui/
>