??? 06/21/06 21:08 Read: times |
#118806 - This is field-programmable logic. Responding to: ???'s previous message |
You can put in or leave out whatever you choose. If you want the standard UART, you can have that, and the standard timer/counter as well if you need. However, you don't HAVE TO. You can put in SPI or I2C or HDLC, or ethernet, or whatever, using whatever timebase you can construct or acquire, either as external hardware or internal IP from wherever you like, or you can roll-yer-own.
If you need, you can even reconfigure the thing on-the-fly. You can, if you like, build in an HDC/FDC and, when the time is right, modify it into an ETHERNET interface, if you're a reall glutton for punishment. I don't recommend it, but nothing will prevent it if you're determined. If you want the standard UART, fine. If you want a different one, also fine. If you want to shift the data in the other direction, that's OK too. You get to do what you want, and you don't have to do any of this. RE |