[Open-graphics] A really good immediate use for OGD1: PCI bus analyzer

[tonyb]

"Standard" lossless compression will reduce the amount of data by less 
than a factor of four.  It would still take over an hour to move the 
data over the serial line.

Tony

Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On 1/2/07, Timothy Miller <theosib at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is a good idea.  But what I meant was to use some very simple
>> compression in the hardware in order to shorten the length of time
>> necessary to download the entire trace over serial line.
> 
> 115200 bps is ~ 14 k/s.  At that speed, a full 256Mb ram dump would
> take approximately 5.2 hours.
> 
> That assumes we don't have to do the equivalent of UU-encoding data to
> be VT100-compatible.
> 
> Compression's a good idea.
> 
> --tim
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