handling a 10Mbps as a part of a communication system

[barbeker]

as a part of a progect, I need to build a communication system capable of handling a 10M bit per seconed data rate. is it posible to use the Raspberry pi to send and recive a stream of bit at that rate (and maybe even crate that stream)

[ghans]

If you limit yourself to Ethernet as the physical medium , it might work.

ghans

[joan]

You would probably need on board hardware help to generate and read the bit stream. SPI would be the obvious choice if you can control the data format.

[barbeker]

first of all thank you for your help. second, please forgive my english.
I guess I need to be more specific. I'm a spouse to build a LED based communication system, and I need the raspberry pie to be able to transmit a data stream to a LED driver which receives either high voltage level (represents a binary one) or low voltage level (represents a binary zero).

[joan]

first of all thank you for your help. second, please forgive my english.
I guess I need to be more specific. I'm a spouse to build a LED based communication system, and I need the raspberry pie to be able to transmit a data stream to a LED driver which receives either high voltage level (represents a binary one) or low voltage level (represents a binary zero).

That rules out SPI (as SPI needs a separate clock signal) and Ethernet. The serial link is limited to 4MBps. All that is left is the PWM or PCM peripherals. I'm not sure if either would be suitable for what you want to do.

[drgeoff]

Where is the data coming from? And what format is it?

[barbeker]

Where is the data coming from? And what format is it?

the system is just a prototype so for now it could be anything stored on the Pi's memory. The format of encoding the data doesn't really matter , I just need to turn on and off a led at a 10 Mbps rate in correlation with the binary data.