Re: Sensors and PocketPC

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Hi,

This (probably) is not practical. You don't say what rate you sensor output
pulses will be, but any high-rate (say, in excess of 100 pps, perhaps?), is
destined to suffer from timing jitter caused by the OS and any other
applications and services that are running. Windows for PocketPCs simply is
not sufficiently "real-time" for this application.

You really should consider using some external hardware, either
purpose-built (timer/counter) or a microcontroller (there are lots to choose
from) that you can program to do the timing. Connecting a microcontroller
to your PPC to display results could be done using a serial port on each
device (assuming your PPC has that capability, some do not).

Dick

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2006.
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