GPIO Speed

[valver]

Hello,

What is te maximun switching speed of the GPIO ?

In loop:

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GPIO.output(17, 1)
timesleep(???)
GPIO.output(17, 0)
timesleep(???)

How can I use PWM?

Thanks in advance.

[croston]

The maximum switching speed will depend on a lot of factors:
[*] The operating system you are using
[*] The language your code is written in
[*] Your code
[*] If there are any other processes using the same CPU resources
[*] Your electronics - too much capacitance at high frequencies and your waveform will end up clipped.

Here is how to use software PWM with RPi.GPIO:
http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio ... /wiki/PWM/

[valver]

Thanks for reply.

I would like to know the maximun and how to get it.

It is faster wicht: ?

[*] Raspian or Pidora or Arch ?
[*] Phyton or C ?
[*] You recommend not to use GUI? to increase speed?

Thanks again

[DougieLawson]

[*] Raspian or Pidora or Arch ?
[*] Phyton or C ?
[*] You recommend not to use GUI? to increase speed?

The OS distribution doesn't matter, it's all Linux on a 700MHz ARM6.

Python is interpreted, C is compiled to machine code. C is faster.

The X-windows & the GUI is a) a memory hog and b) a CPU hog if you can run without it you will gain some speed and memory.