26 Oct
1999
26 Oct
'99
1:32 a.m.
At 10:08 PM 10/25/99 -0700, you wrote:
No, no and no. A dumb 4Mhz burst bus that requires cpu attention to work
will be many times slower in actual applications than two 1Mhz buses with
distributed arbitration and such smarts. That's all the point of the
discussion. That's why raw numbers tend to be meaningless. That's why
system designers nowadays make decisions based on simulations and not
on raw specs.
Carlos.
Two 1MHz busses
will be faster than a single 2MHz bus if they are being used
for different purposes, such as one for I/O and one for memory accesses.
But my point is that one 4 MHz synchronous bus is going to be faster than
two 1 MHz busses in all cases.