[sdiy] Cheapo LCD display

[Eric Brombaugh]

On 09/25/2009 02:56 PM, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> Eric Brombaugh<ebrombaugh1 at cox.net>  wrote:
>> Nothing wrong with that. Only downside is that it's a bit more fiddly
>> work coding for the Picoblaze in assembly than doing it on a standard
>> MCU with a C compiler. Otherwise it's all just bits.
>
> Heh, that's kinda funny because I'm quite comfortable in the stunted runt environment of PicoBlaze.
>   Hell, if I can make something work there, it should be child's play even with the weirdness of a
> PIC [grin] and a rather large/nice one at that (PIC18F8720).  The reason I like this method is that
> the reprogram cycles with an FPGA are infinite where they are limited with a PIC.  (I know, I'm
> being anal).  I can fix the doofus things in the FPGA design phase...  I need the practice anyway...

I've not had any problems with Flash endurance in my dsPIC development. 
I think that the minimum spec on the 33F series parts is 1000 cycles, 
but I've got some parts that are pushing that (used for multiple 
projects) and haven't run into difficulty yet. Considering that you can 
get these MCUs in small qty for < $5 I'm not too worried about it.

Eric