I can attest to the fact that there aren't many tools available for this little guy.
It works OK but the tools are a bit of a pain. In this application it can work
very well, in fact it might be a bit of overkill. You could probably do it cheaper
with other parts but probably not faster in terms of development time.
We recently eradicated AVRs from a system I've been working on but it was a wildly
different application. The tools were a pain but weren't the main reason to get rid
of them. The system had evolved to a point where the complexity of a set of AVRs
(one on each board in a multi-board system) was no longer necessary.
Hmmm, there are lots of voltage control devices you could make out of an AVR and a
similar panel layout... I wonder if Tony has some other ideas up his sleeve? It
seems that you could make a simple sequencer at least....
Eric
--- Tony Karavidas <
tony@...> wrote:
> No it's not a standard core. Here is the starting point for their stuff:
>
> http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod23.htm
>
> It's an 8MIPS core with flash, eeprom, a/d, timers, uarts, etc..
>
> It's my new favorite fast little uP. There are a few supporting C compilers
> that perform very well.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: davevosh@... [mailto:davevosh@...]
> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 8:51 PM
> > To: motm@egroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [motm] MOTM compatible module
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 00-08-21 23:39:40 EDT, you write:
> >
> > << Atmel AVR risc processor >>
> >
> >
> >
> > tony,
> > just because i don`t have the good sense not to ask ( :^) ) :
> > does the microprocessor use a "standard" core ( arm, rx000, etc.
> > ) that is
> > licensed or is it completely different ? while i certainly
> > wouldn`t claim to
> > know all there is about microprocessors, i`ve never heard of this one.
> > best,
> > dave v.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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