Reply to post: why is it that people forget flow control?

It's the day before the grand opening but we need a firmware update. It'll be fine

vogon00

why is it that people forget flow control?

Every component of interlinked systems that I have every worked on (Including the human-driven ones!) always involves flow control somewhere. In-band or OOB, it's always present.

IMHO, flow control make thing work smoothly, and 'bottleneck' restrictions are easier to identify, as long as you bother to have flow on/off assertions visible somewhere. You can then tweak the setup as required to improve things.

Also, if one is dealing with something synchronous you need to 'Think Synch'...

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