>< Take a look at the PICs as well. The programmer for those is very simple
>< and Microchip do document the programming algorithms. A 16C84 programmer
>< is 2 cheap TTL chips, a few discretes and a PC printer port.
>I've looked at them and like most single chips MCUs they are bizzare.
>They also offer a windows emulator that pretty neat.
>Allison
What you find "bizarre" is almost certainly what I like about them. 12-,
13-, and 14-bit wide instruction words, Harvard architecture so that
I-space and D-space are completely different concepts, remarkabably
efficient interrupt handling, remarkably low-power quiet modes,
etc. A refreshing change from the bland uniformity of the
8080/8086/6800-derived microcomputers that dominate much of the world.
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Received on Sun Oct 04 1998 - 14:16:51 BST