Max usb tranfer speed on Startkit?

[asid61]

I'm looking at transferring an array of 160 integers over the usb on the startkit. Each integer only needs to store up to a 16-bit value though, so I need to transfer a total of 2560 bits per packet.
I need to transfer these bits aat a minimum speed of 1000 times per second (so 2.56Mbits per second). However, I noticed that printing the values via the text window in the editor is extremely slow. How can I read the data via a c or java program external to the Composer tools? And is this kind of speed possible for the Startkit?

[Folknology]

You might want to try using xscope realtime probing to move values back to the host. You can use the command line Xrun in --xscope-realtime mode to provide these via a socket interface. Not sure how fast it would be, it has a relatively low latency (compared to print) so well worth trying.

regards
Al

[asid61]

You might want to try using xscope realtime probing to move values back to the host. You can use the command line Xrun in --xscope-realtime mode to provide these via a socket interface. Not sure how fast it would be, it has a relatively low latency (compared to print) so well worth trying.

regards
Al

Thank you very much! XScope looks like it can port data very quickly.
I still have a couple questions though:
1. XScope is not working properly for me. Is there a tutorial for using the XScope somewhere? Example programs have not worked for me. It keeps on spitting out "undefined reference" errors even though I have included xscope.h

2. How can I access data sent over USB by the Starkit via an external program (without the Composer)? I need to manipulate the data in a 3D model on a different program.

[Folknology]

You might want to try using xscope realtime probing to move values back to the host. You can use the command line Xrun in --xscope-realtime mode to provide these via a socket interface. Not sure how fast it would be, it has a relatively low latency (compared to print) so well worth trying.

regards
Al

Thank you very much! XScope looks like it can port data very quickly.
I still have a couple questions though:
1. XScope is not working properly for me. Is there a tutorial for using the XScope somewhere? Example programs have not worked for me. It keeps on spitting out "undefined reference" errors even though I have included xscope.h

2. How can I access data sent over USB by the Starkit via an external program (without the Composer)? I need to manipulate the data in a 3D model on a different program.

1) Make sure you add xscope to the XT Composer project settings (or manually add -fxscope to your XCC_FLAGS in your Makefile).
2. When you run 'xrun --xscope-realtime bin/yourbinary.xe' on the command line it will pass the xscope data from the startkit usb to a socket interface which you can access programatically. If you want to see what the data looks like try running 'xrun --xscope-file xscopedata/somedatafile bin/yourbin.xe' then peruse 'somedatafile' contents, or just redirect the output to the console.

regards
Al

[asid61]

You might want to try using xscope realtime probing to move values back to the host. You can use the command line Xrun in --xscope-realtime mode to provide these via a socket interface. Not sure how fast it would be, it has a relatively low latency (compared to print) so well worth trying.

regards
Al

Thank you very much! XScope looks like it can port data very quickly.
I still have a couple questions though:
1. XScope is not working properly for me. Is there a tutorial for using the XScope somewhere? Example programs have not worked for me. It keeps on spitting out "undefined reference" errors even though I have included xscope.h

2. How can I access data sent over USB by the Starkit via an external program (without the Composer)? I need to manipulate the data in a 3D model on a different program.

1) Make sure you add xscope to the XT Composer project settings (or manually add -fxscope to your XCC_FLAGS in your Makefile).
2. When you run 'xrun --xscope-realtime bin/yourbinary.xe' on the command line it will pass the xscope data from the startkit usb to a socket interface which you can access programatically. If you want to see what the data looks like try running 'xrun --xscope-file xscopedata/somedatafile bin/yourbin.xe' then peruse 'somedatafile' contents, or just redirect the output to the console.

regards
Al

Thank you so much! I got it working, and it's definitely fast enough for my needs. More speed couldn't hurt, but I won't need any more speed for a long time.

[XMatt]

There is an library for implementing the communication with xscope host applications here if you want to see how to parse the data from the socket interface from xrun.

https://github.com/xcore/sc_xscope_support