[time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

Bob Paddock bob.paddock at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 21:55:52 EST 2008


On Friday 15 February 2008 09:31:06 pm Scott Newell wrote:
> At 07:57 PM 2/15/2008, Patrick wrote:

> I love the 68k stuff (shipped a lot of 68332 based products), but I
> wouldn't recommend it for new designs.

Scott, take a look at the 68000 compatible Fido1100:

http://www.innovasic.com/fido.htm

> I've used ARM (the NXP microcontrollers) 

Has (?)/Had some extremely obscure bugs,
don't recall the exact details right now,
but I decided I didn't need the hassles
in some lifesupport equipment I was designing.
Was the original Philips ARMs.

> and H8 recently

Screwed me on delivery commitments big time,
back when they were Hitachi.

> I  use Linux and am comfortable with it.

Patrick, take a look at the AP7000 based on the AVR32.

http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=642

http://www.ic-board.de/product_info.php?language=en&info=p75_ICnova-AP7000-Base.html

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32003.pdf

Feb 26 - Mar 20: AVR32 UC3 Seminar Series (Not well published):
http://www.atmel.com/corporate/corporate_event.asp

Some new AVR's are going to be announced at the end of the month.
I'm guessing the XMega series goes public.

If you don't like AVR's take a look at the newer Zilog stuff,
like the Zeno.  Tools with compilers are reasonably priced <$100 unlike
any of the Microchip tools, and the over priced Microchip GCC
compiler.

http://www.zilog.com/


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