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rlink throughput on basys3/nexys4 limited by serial port stack round trip times
The communication to basys3 and nexys4 boards is handled via the serial port driver. The combination of the FTDI USB UART and the Linux serial port stack gives a round trip time of 2 ms. On nexys3 and nexys2 boards and communication via the Cypress FX2 one gets a round trip time of 0.125 ms.
In many cases rlink throughput is limited by round trip time. It seems possible to improve it on basys3 and nexys4 boards with a libusb based custom driver.
originally filed as issue V0.64-4 on 2015-03-01