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Performance of UART driver (AM 335x Starter Kit, Linux)

Hi,

my new application will be:

- 1 master (AM335x Starter Kit (Linux OS))

- up to 16 slave processors (AVR 8-bit microcontrollers) on separate PCBs

- UART based communication, full-duplex RS485 (C application, serial driver, from user space in Linux)

 Master will poll slave processors for fresh data. Baudrate will be about 1 Mbps, each slave must be polled every 55 ms. Length of data packets will be 10 - 30 bytes.

I would like to know:

- what is the maximum possible baudrate

- what is a typical/maximum latency (TX->RX loopback connection)

Any other suggestion, how to comunicate with 16 slaves from embedded Linux?

Thanks,

Edo