Dave McGuire wrote:
> I'm currently looking at the DS80C400. That is one scary chip.
> Hardware math accelerator, 10/100Mbps ethernet controller, TCP/IP
> stack and multitasking OS primitives in on-chip ROM...most impressive.
I've got some samples. Unfortunately it's beginning to look like I might
have to buy and cannibalise an Ethernet card. Unless someone here has a
spare they want rid of. I need the Ethernet interface transformer and RJ45
socket to be intact at the very least.
> This is a microcontroller that can, no shit, boot its firmware via
> DHCP and TFTP.
That settles it - I've got a spare 256kbit RAM lying around somewhere that's
just begging to be used, plus I've got a spare MAX233 (SOIC SMD) and some
odd-job parts. This 80C400 is getting turned into a webserver :-)
Later.
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Phil.
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http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
Received on Sat Jan 25 2003 - 13:02:00 GMT