AVR-Chat

Astria Nur Irfansyah wrote:

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> Does anyone have ever used PICAXE before? 

Check out http://www.phanderson.com/picaxe/picaxe.html

> Selling micros with useful
> bootstrap codes for easy development is an interesting idea though. I
> wonder if there are AVR-AXEs or something like that.
>
Absolutely there are. BasicX (http://basicx.com/) is the one probably 
most people on this group have heard of which is based on a Virtual 
Machine ( http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/virtual_machine.html ) 
architecture. This is quite a powerful chip (much better than 
competitors such as Basic Stamp IMHO) as it include multi-tasking, 
single precision math and exposes most of the AVR chip functionality 
through function and subroutine calls. BasicX chips are based on 
AT90S8335, ATMega8535, AT90S8515 chips and one version is pin compatible 
with the Stamp.

There are several websites and a Yahoo group devoted to BasicX.  You 
might start with BasicX site first. I also have a website with a full 
treatise on the internals of the BasicX platform (or as much as I have 
been able to determine from investigating the chip in detail).

Mike
http://home.austin.rr.com/perks/basicx/