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posted by bretjohn Homepage E-mail, Rio Rancho, NM, 11.10.2011, 16:58

> In my case I mostly need to flipping few pins very fast, e.g. for
> simulating SPI serial bus - various bitbang interfaces via direct access to
> LPT registers. And I think this will be very slow via USB (compared to
> transfering byte stream like when printing) so I stand upon a real LPT that
> can do it >100kHz...

You're correct -- there's no way USB (or any other type of packet interface, like Ethernet) can compete with direct hardware when it comes to latency. There's no way USB could work for simulations like SPI. But, it might be suitable for something like programming EPROMs.

 

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