Time for new uP

[Aaron J. Grier]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:25:53PM -0700, Chris MacDonald wrote:
> I have also been looking into the AT90 series AVRs.  I had a good
> experience with the PIC16F84 in the Mini Modular, but the Atmel chips
> seem to have a better performance-and-features-to-price ratio.

I was wondering when the AVR would be mentioned here.  :)

> One attractive feature of the AT90 for me is that it has an instruction
> to read data from program memory into a register, something the PIC
> instruction set can't do.

Not to mention the AVR design lends itself to being programmed in C,
which at least to me is a rather nice feature.

> Digikey is currently saying about the AT90S4433, "Due to extended
> lead-time we are unable to backorder, no delivery date available." 

Digi-Key told me February of 2001 for the development kit.

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