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Re: A request for change to next years Innovation FIRST control board/system.

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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
I doubt speed is much of a problem anyway. At our current serial download rate (115Kbps), there's a good chance that we're already limited by the FLASH write time. Writing to FLASH parts (compared to reading, or reading/writing to RAM) is very slow.
Good point, we could use magic to transfer the code from the PC to the RC and we'd be limited by the FLASH write speed.

For this example, let's assume the FLASH write speed is infinite.

Program size (maximum): 32KB
Speed (RS-232 max): 115Kbps
32K/115Kbps = 2.3 Seconds

Assuming a program is transfering as fast as theoreticly possible, at maximum it would take 2.3 seconds to fill the PIC's memory.
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