[time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

[Didier Juges]

My favorite uC familly is made by Silabs.

They have a line of 8051 variants with excellent performance (up to 100
MIPS) and the SDCC compiler is free.

I have documented the main reasons for liking it there:

http://www.eds-fl.com/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki.cgi?SiLabs

(nomal ko4bb.com web site is down tonight, don't know why)

Didier KO4BB 

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> Hello Bob,
>  
> >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.
>  
> NXP took care of most of the issues long time  ago. Remaining 
> bugs are well documented, better than parts from other  
> companies without documented bug list.
>  
> Get the /01 versions of the chips. Available for around $2 in 
> volume. Easily available on Digikey, and dev boards are 
> $30.95 on Sparkfun.  Free GNU tools available, including 
> several free OS's. Love the fact that  executables run on 
> different parts, one can choose based on memory  requirements.
>  
> Another one is NEC, they make a host of Microcontrollers that 
> are  extremely popular in Detroit. Lot's of support, 
> high-reliability with wide temp  ranges etc. They have units 
> with direct LCD drive, motor control circuitry,  etc.
>  
> bye,
> Said
> 
> 
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