Ucom/Uftdi Thru-put

[Bernd Walter]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:57:01PM -0700, User Tomdean wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 5.4 on an ASUS A7N266E.
> 
> I have a FTDI FT8U245BM based UMP2 driven by an Atmel ATmega16, connected to ucom0.
> 
> usb0: OHCI version 1.0
> usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
> ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xee800000-0xee800fff irq 21 at device 3.0 on pci0
> usb1: OHCI version 1.0
> usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
> usb1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
> ...
> ucom0: FTDI USB HS Serial Converter, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 2
> 
> The FT8U245BM looks like an FT8U232AM, except the 'other side' is
> parallel rather than serial.  From the EEPROM,
> 
> vendor  0x0403    == USB_VENDOR_FTDI
> product 0x6001    == USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_SERIAL_8U232AM
> release 0x0200
> 
> My FreeBSD process just loops, reading ucom0.  The microprocessor just
> loops, waiting for space in the UMP2 transmit buffer, 'TXE#' then writes an
> 'a'.
> 
> The thru-put is 1000060 bytes in 32.26 seconds or about 31 KBytes/sec.
> 
> The microprocessor spends most of the time waiting for TXE#.
> 
> Is this near the max thru-put of the uftdi driver?

Keep in mind that Full-Speed USB is just 12MBit/s plus much overhead.
You are near the theoretical limit.

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