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Does anybody know of a wrapper or technique to networking the BX24? I am currently evaluating the OOPIC and the BX24. Both chips have pros and cons, but the BX24 has the most pros. Unfortunately the BX chip's biggest drawback is no networking whereas the OOPIC uses the very simple, but powerful I2C protocol. HELP!

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I use 9600 baud serial networking with my robot to talk to the BX-24 and three PIC-based coprocessors. Works well and requires only a single-wire for both transmit and receive. The drawbacks are that 9600-baud is not incredibly fast, and RS-232 can be error prone compared with other protocols. This basically means that you should always be prepared for read timeouts. On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:28:13 -0000, you wrote: >Does anybody know of a wrapper or technique to networking the BX24? >I am currently evaluating the OOPIC and the BX24. Both chips have >pros and cons, but the BX24 has the most pros. Unfortunately the BX >chip's biggest drawback is no networking whereas the OOPIC uses the >very simple, but powerful I2C protocol. > >HELP! ************************************** Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

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I'm going to be using BX-01's in a networked application..If anyone has used them in a network with over 24 units( or a couple ), I'd love to hear about it.. I'm interested in how reliable it is plus how fast can retrieve data & send data to other modules. Not baud rates or data speed...just GetNetwork & PutNetwork etc.. commands and how fast they update on the remote BX's... ..Seeing as it all happens in the background, It's hard to know what's really happening... Any help will be greatly appreciated... Stewart McCallum Sydney,Au

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the update is very quick. what I have found to be the bigest slowdown is the chip that is reciving the data has to have a fast loop that works with the data. example: if you change a number with the master and send it to the slave, the state of the slave is not known. if the read of that data in the slave happened just before it was changed by the master it will have to cycle through its program until it reads the data again for the change to have any effect. --- Stewart McCallum <> wrote: > > I'm going to be using BX-01's in a networked application..If anyone > has > used them in a network with over 24 units( or a couple ), I'd love to > hear > about it.. > I'm interested in how reliable it is plus how fast can retrieve data > & send > data to other modules. Not baud rates or data speed...just GetNetwork > & > PutNetwork etc.. commands and how fast they update on the remote > BX's... > > ..Seeing as it all happens in the background, It's hard to know > what's > really happening... > Any help will be greatly appreciated... > > Stewart McCallum > Sydney,Au > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ===== Tony Brenke North Tacoma, WA __________________________________________________

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