Time for new uP

[Tim Ressel]

Well, shucks. You see what happens? You get up the courage to push past your
neophobia, and for what?? no stock until spring?!?  Aaaarrrrggggghhhh!!!

Luckilly for me I work for HP. Wonderous things happen when you mention HP, and
the trillioins of ICs we buy every year (not an exaggeration!). I'll just mosey
over to the Material Engineering department and see what they can scare up for
me.

Its good to be the HP engineer!!!     ;-)

Tim Ressel--Compliance Engineer
Hewlett-Packard
Verifone Division
3755 Atherton Rd.
Rocklin, Cal
916-630-2541  
timothy_ressel at hp.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Theo [mailto:t.hogers at home.nl]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 5:20 AM
To: macdonald at evenfall.com; Tim Ressel; Synth DIY
Subject: Re: Time for new uP



----- Original Message -----
From: Chris MacDonald <macdonald at evenfall.com>

> So I guess I'm wondering if anyone else has had trouble getting Atmel
> parts or did I just pick a bad time to start looking?
>
> -Chris MacDonald
>

No AVR are more or less sold out till next spring.
I ordered 100ps 90S2313 a while ago and got 5ps actually delivered.
There are still some dil parts out there, mostly at 2 time the normal price.
It seems you can forget about soic and tqfp completely :((

I've even considered to go for PIC,
however the PIC instructionset and (lack off) registers made me decide to
wait for better times.

The SX uC looks like a better alternative,
still the AVR is easier to work with (well just my opinion o'cause).

Cheers, Theo