From: "Jan-Erik Soderholm"

> What speed are you running at now, and what speed will you
> be running in later ? (The speed of the PIC, that is).
My development board has a 4Mhz clock. I'm still deciding which speed I'm
going to use later, I have to take in consideration 3 things: 1)
compatibility with my desired USART speed, 2) power consumption (it's
battery operated) and now 3) will I have enough speed to do everything I
want to do?

> And, I don't understand, do you write to the CF card
> one byte at the time ? Your interrupt routine runs once
> for each received byte on the serial link, not ?

Actually I still don't know. I want to write to the CF (yes, compactflash)
soon, but for now I'm giving one step at time and instead I'm writing to the
USART (going to the PC).

> A final thought...
> Does the specificatins of the CF card indicate that it should be able
> to keep up writing at the same speed that the data comes in ?
> If so, there must be something else in your code that takes to long.
> If not, well, it doesn't matter *what* you do, does it ?

That's a very good guess. I'm using mikropascal, I think for this
performance-sensitive application I'll have to use god old assembler.


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