Re: Generic interface for accelerometers (AMS, HDAPS, ...)
From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Jul 05 2006 - 21:18:08 EST
Hi!
> > > > I don't know about AMS, but talking to HDAPS when
> > > > you don't need to does waste enough system resources and power to actually
> > > > justify implementing this.
> >
> > I'd doubt any of the accelerometer implementations would consume much
> > power or CPU.
Actually polling at 100Hz probably _is_ going to be measurable on
modern CPUs -- because it means that CPU has to exit C4. It will not
be too bad, hopefully.
Pavel
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