seq2 text

[Beszedes Arpad]

KA4HJH wrote:
> 
> >also, it has a built in UART (midi anyone?)
> 
> Unfortunately, all of the 8 bit MCU's I've seen only go up to 9600 or
> 14.4k. Even if you found one that went above 32k, you'd need a really

Look at e.g. Atmel's 89C51 (its clock can be up to 24MHz, so programming
its UART for 31.250 baud really simple). (Even you can do it with any
MCU from the MCS-51 family, take a look at the PAiA MIDI2CV).

Arpad.

> oddball crystal to get the right timing, since it's divided down internally
> to match one of the common, slower bit rates, none of which are
> mathematically close to MIDI. This is why it's almost always done with a
> software UART. Fortunately, such code is available.
> 
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"

-- 
***********************************************
*  Arpad Beszedes                             *
*                                             *
*  Research Group on Artificial Intelligence  *
*  Hungarian Academy of Sciences              *
*  Attila Jozsef University, Szeged, Hungary  *
*  e-mail: beszedes at cc.u-szeged.hu            *
*  tel.: (+36) 62/45-41-45                    *
***********************************************