Missing the Propeller
HollyMinkowski
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I start a new project tue at work and I'm up late tonight
looking over the details and putting down some ideas about
the code I will have to write. This is the first significant
program I will be doing since I started playing with the
propeller and it's really surprising how limiting it now seems
to have to do everything with a single processor :-(
It used to be kind of fun cramming fast code into interrupt
routines and getting it all to work.... playing with 8 cogs
on the prop has really made all of that seem like old tech.
I wish there was a way I could make a prop work in the new
project but since I am the only one here who has experience
with it there is no way to get them to use it...it also really has
too little mem and speed for this. I sure wish the prop2 was
out already... I'd be willing to do all the coding myself just to use
a chip with multiple cogs. When the prop2 becomes available
I am going to try and get them to use it in most projects... I
think I have a good chance, especially if I can show off the prop2
running fast compiled C code. I hope that a good C compiler for
the prop2 is available as soon as the chip is.
I'm really going to miss the Prop for the next month or so as I code
this new project.... I just won't have any time or energy left over to
even play with the prop at home.
This is just really going to suck :-(
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looking over the details and putting down some ideas about
the code I will have to write. This is the first significant
program I will be doing since I started playing with the
propeller and it's really surprising how limiting it now seems
to have to do everything with a single processor :-(
It used to be kind of fun cramming fast code into interrupt
routines and getting it all to work.... playing with 8 cogs
on the prop has really made all of that seem like old tech.
I wish there was a way I could make a prop work in the new
project but since I am the only one here who has experience
with it there is no way to get them to use it...it also really has
too little mem and speed for this. I sure wish the prop2 was
out already... I'd be willing to do all the coding myself just to use
a chip with multiple cogs. When the prop2 becomes available
I am going to try and get them to use it in most projects... I
think I have a good chance, especially if I can show off the prop2
running fast compiled C code. I hope that a good C compiler for
the prop2 is available as soon as the chip is.
I'm really going to miss the Prop for the next month or so as I code
this new project.... I just won't have any time or energy left over to
even play with the prop at home.
This is just really going to suck :-(
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"Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?"
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Leon
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But even with an rtos it still is not even close to the same as having lots of cogs.
It's just a whole new mindset once you get into using multiple processors.
And once you experience the benefits you hate to go back.
Usually I do the code inside interrupt routines in asm
so I can do more stuff in the limited amount of time avail.
It is amazing how much you can do in 0.0001/sec
if you have to. But having a whole cog to do it would be
a lot easier and more fun.
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Post Edited (HollyMinkowski) : 9/8/2009 9:06:17 AM GMT
Leon
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Amateur radio callsign: G1HSM
Suzuki SV1000S motorcycle
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