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[Rene Schmitz]

At 07:19 23.06.99 GMT, Paul Maddox wrote:
>All,
>
>  on tyhe subject of small home programmable affordable uP..
>I bought the Atmel AVR, quite impressive spec, the AT90s8515... runs at 
>8Mhz, and is one IPC, so 8Mhz is 8Mips... also, it has a built in UART (midi 
>anyone?) and Im afraid to say its a better spec allround than the PIC stuff, 
>cheaper and easier to use too.

Yes, the PICs are somewhat limited on the memory side, also they need 4
cycles per instruction. But the cost for the development system is: Almost
zero.
You can find assemblers and programming software free on the net. This
comes very handy when doing projects that should be easy to copy by anyone
without a programmer. I haven't had a closer look at the AVR but it seems
that they're more powerful and cheaper than the PICs. And they're in system
programmable as well.

>  It took me less than two weeks to write a Midi>CV peice of software, bear 
>in mind that I havent programmed in nearly 15 years, I was VERY pleased with 
>this little kit, and I would have NO problem in recomending it for both cost 
>and ease of use, let alone the spec.

Thanks for the info, I think I'll drop my idea of makeing an 8031-based board 
towards the AVR.

Bye 
 René 


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