[time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?-Thanks

[Patrick]

As always, the advice here is awesome.

Thanks to Bob, Scott and John!

-Patrick

Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 09:31:06 pm Scott Newell wrote:
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>> At 07:57 PM 2/15/2008, Patrick wrote:
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>> I love the 68k stuff (shipped a lot of 68332 based products), but I
>> wouldn't recommend it for new designs.
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> Scott, take a look at the 68000 compatible Fido1100:
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> http://www.innovasic.com/fido.htm
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>> I've used ARM (the NXP microcontrollers) 
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> Has (?)/Had some extremely obscure bugs,
> don't recall the exact details right now,
> but I decided I didn't need the hassles
> in some lifesupport equipment I was designing.
> Was the original Philips ARMs.
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>> and H8 recently
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> Screwed me on delivery commitments big time,
> back when they were Hitachi.
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>> I  use Linux and am comfortable with it.
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> Patrick, take a look at the AP7000 based on the AVR32.
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> http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=642
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> http://www.ic-board.de/product_info.php?language=en&info=p75_ICnova-AP7000-Base.html
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> http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32003.pdf
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> Feb 26 - Mar 20: AVR32 UC3 Seminar Series (Not well published):
> http://www.atmel.com/corporate/corporate_event.asp
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> Some new AVR's are going to be announced at the end of the month.
> I'm guessing the XMega series goes public.
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> If you don't like AVR's take a look at the newer Zilog stuff,
> like the Zeno.  Tools with compilers are reasonably priced <$100 unlike
> any of the Microchip tools, and the over priced Microchip GCC
> compiler.
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> http://www.zilog.com/
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