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Re: question about serial port bit banging

2005-12-28 by poitsplace

Did you use the timer interrupt for that?  Seems like it would have 
less overhead than a delay loop (for reasons besides the fact that you 
had the MCU do nothing)

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Don Kinzer" <dkinzer@e...> wrote:
>
> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Zack Widup <w9sz@p...> wrote:
> > 9600 baud is difficult to implement with an AVR running at 16 MHz.
> 
> My 4-channel implementation can run at 19200 baud reliably but only 
if 
> just one channel is open.  For 2 to 4 channels, the maximum baud is 
> limited to 9600.  Of course, at the higher rates there's not much 
time 
> left to do very much other processing so a lower maximum rate is 
> better.
> 
> Don
> ZBasic Microcontrollers
> http://www.zbasic.net
>

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