19 Aug
2012
19 Aug
'12
4:15 p.m.
On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:04 AM, Mouse wrote:
Well, not the only one. That's my primary issue with USB, as it is
with PCI. But I do recognize that once speeds get into the tens
of MHz, things rapidly fall out of the "hobbyist" range, so much
like most Ethernet implementations, I'll accept a third-party VLSI
controller chip to perform translation to something else (e.g. CMOS-
level serial) to use it.
- Dave
In fact, for
what it was designed to do, it works amazingly well.
It's not even "new" anymore, so we can't use that excuse.
The biggest problem I have with it is that it requires a full-fledged
CPU or a comparable amount of custom silicon to speak at all - it is
not amenable to "throw together a breadboard lashup from discretes"
implementations. Of course, this is a purely personal point of view;
there's only one other person here I'm reasonably sure will agree with
it, that being tony.