Fw: [sdiy] Anybody using Atmel AVR?

[Paul Maddox]

Tom,

> Might want to look at the Ubicom SX series chips.  Small ram and flash but
> extremely fast. ( 75mips at 75mhz, and if you ask them nicely they spec some
of
> the SX28's at 100mhz ).  Great for DSP-like simple stuff, like 8 DCO's on
a
> 20pin chip.

not going to get into a 'pic vs scenix vs avr' argument.
The scenix is fast, granted, but lacks a lot of the features of the AVR,
including 32 registers to play with, a CISC set rather than RISC, and
hardware peripherals, like UARTs , SPI interfaces and so on.
FWIW, the new Mega range of AVRs rock!, 16MIPs at 16Mhz.

Paul