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- From: rick@cs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer)
- Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Networking Systems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.210159.20200@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Keywords: arcnet
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- Organization: State University of New York, Stony Brook
- References: <gregh.714841186@cserver> <#ncnf7=@quantum.on.ca> <8ycnr9+@quantum.on.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:01:59 GMT
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- In article <8ycnr9+@quantum.on.ca> aboyd@quantum.on.ca (Andrew Boyd) writes:
- >In article <#ncnf7=@quantum.on.ca> danh@quantum.on.ca (Dan Hildebrand)
- >writes:
- >>Why not drop an Arcnet chip onto your embedded system ? The component cost
- >>is very low ...
- >
- >if you are interested in arcnet for an embedded system, check out the
- >SMC 20020, which is an arcnet controller with on-board ram. The data
- >sheet claims "With only one COM20020 and one microcontroller, a complete
- >ARCNET node may be implemented".
- >
- >Also, if I were you, I would check out RS-485. Not very fast, but
- >dirt cheap.
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- Actually, the newest SMC 20020's will do 5 mBit/sec over RS485. Cheap,
- fast, clean solution. Easy to program too!
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- Rick Spanbauer
- SUNY/Stony Brook
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