Post by thread:[OT] or not [ot] which controller is the question

18/4/2000 Hello all fellow picers whom have not got thier filters on. As you may recall I have been beavering away at my latest series of projects, an I have been forced (Due to costs! (Yep Mchip is not the cheapest controller in the land!)) to use an Hitachi H8 (300L flash based beast with lots of goddies including I/O galor PWM serial ports and all ather nice things (ICT and FLASH 32k of the darling stuff) and all this and more but wait! I know you want more! OK the dammage, well I can not give the exact figure but it is under $6US in numbers. The only thing that this does not have is EEPROM. OK so what is the problem? Dunno? I have just been investigating and have the "C" tools, but I want to know if any others out there have used it (The processor that is) and general comments. I guess that I would Like MCHIP to pipe up and give a good price, but sigh this does not seem possible (Is hell formig ice crystalsr?). Another thing anyone know of a chatlist for this thing? Hey you would all love Japanese documentation, 1000s (Yes 1000s) of pages and still the question remains, what does the NMI do? And How do I single step in the simulator but these things I am working on. I supose the moral of the story is don't can MPLAB all that much, it is free, you should see what some of the killobucks by it from bend over into the customer barrel stuff does. Dennis

> -----Original Message----- > From: Alan B Pearce [SMTP:spam_OUTA.B.PearceTakeThisOuTRL.AC.UK] > Sent: Tuesday, 18 April 2000 18:37 > To: .....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: [OT] or not [ot] which controller is the question > > >OK the dammage, well I can not give the exact figure > >but it is under $6US in numbers. The only thing that this does > >not have is EEPROM. > > So what is the comparable price by the time you add an eeprom chip, or do > you > not require that in your project? > > Add another $0.26US for that! Dennis