Murata Electronics North America SEM2410 Manual Do Utilizador

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always be configured for maximum data throughput, even at the expense of some 
throughput for the slaves. This is the factory default configuration. 
In frequency hopping technology, the shorter the hop duration, the lower the data latency 
but the lower the throughput. This is because the overhead required is the same regardless 
of the hop duration. Thus at shorter hop durations, the overhead is a larger percentage of 
the hop time. Longer hop durations provide more throughput but have a higher data 
latency. If data from a slave appears just after the slave’s designated transmit time, the 
slave will have to wait one hop duration before it can transmit the data. As the hop 
durations of the SEM products are very short, ranging from 3.3ms to 17.7ms, the better 
approach is to pick the hop duration to maximize data throughput without unnecessarily 
penalizing latency.  
The maximum number of bytes that can be transmitted on a single hop by either a master 
or a slave is 208 bytes. The factory configuration is set up that the master will always be 
able to transmit 208 bytes per hop. The slave devices split the remaining time equally and 
transmit as much as the can each hop. The amount of time remaining will depend on the 
hop duration. The table below gives data throughputs for multiple slaves based on the 
default hop duration for a SEM.  
 
Slaves 
 
Hop Duration 
 
Slave Throughput 
Master 
Throughput 
Aggregate 
Throughput 
1 10ms 
208Kbps 
208Kbps 
416Kbps 
2 10ms 
118.6Kbps 
208Kbps 
445.2Kbps 
3 10ms 
69.5Kbps 
208Kbps 
416.5Kbps 
4 10ms 
44.8Kbps 
208Kbps 
387.2Kbps 
 
If the application has more slave devices, or if it is desirable to increase the throughputs 
of the slaves at the expense of the master SEM, contact Cirronet technical support for 
more details.