[sdiy] Zilog Z8 Encore

[Tim Ressel]

Proteus et al,

Interesting. I just came to the conclusion that a few
of the modules I want to build would be better suited
to a uP. $50 for a dev system with c compiler is a
deal indeed.

You do of course realize this uP is a 3.3V part...

--Tim Ressel

--- The Proteus <proteus at ugwarehouse.org> wrote:
> 	Okay, this is definitely DIY-Worthy. Zilog just
> started a big
> marketing push for their Z8 Encore! CPU's, which
> actually are pretty damn
> slick. I bought an evaluation kit which contains an
> evaluation board,
> software development environment (including C
> compiler, deubgger, etc),
> BDM module, and documentation for $50US. The really
> nice part is that I
> called my distributor before I ordered this kit to
> find out how much the
> actual CPUs are: $7.11 in piece (1+) quantities. 
> 	This CPU (the Z8F6403) is pretty slick. 8-Bit Z8e
> MPU core,
> 12-channel 10-bit ADC, 64KB of flash on board, 4KB
> of RAM, two UARTs, I2C
> and SPI interfaces, timers, 3 channel DMA, and the
> list goes on... this is
> better *and* cheaper than most of the comparable AVR
> and PIC
> microcontrollers I've found. Quite a DIY product
> too... this is going into
> several projects I've got planned. :D
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Prot
> 
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