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Re: [LUG] micro controller

 

or if you dont want to use PICs there are a whole shed load of ATMELs
to do various stuff too


2008/10/24 Robin Cornelius <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Steve James <ste@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Friday 24 October 2008, Tom Potts wrote:
>>> On Friday 24 October 2008 12:36, Robin Cornelius wrote:
>>>
>>> You couldn't actually give me some clues to suppliers/prices/details here -
>>> searches for this sort of thing seem to be hijacked and the closest I've
>>> got is for a Philips LPC900 but the UK link takes me to arrow.co.uk who
>>> don't seem to have functioning e-mail - I've never had a reply from them
>>> yet! I guess these things should be in the £5 per one off region??
>>> Tom te tom te tom
>>
>> Tom, try CPC [1] or RS [2]. Probably Maplin too.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Steve.
>>
>>  [1] -
>> http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+521+500001+1001900&Ntk=gensearch_003&Ntt=pic&Ntx=
>>
>>  [2] -
>> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=retrieveTfg&binCount=104&Ne=4294957561&Ntt=pic&Ntk=I18NAll&Nr=AND%28avl%3auk%2csearchDiscon_uk%3aN%29&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&N=4294955193&Nty=1
>>
>>
>
> Yea the actual PIC's are made my "Microchip" although there are
> similar types of product from other manufactures Microchip pretty much
> dominates this type of controller market.
>
> Probably the best type are the 16F variety and you might just as well
> get a PicKit2
>
> http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en023805
>
> which i see for about £35 with a pic to get you started, and new picks
> are a couple of quid each :-
>
> http://www.rapidonline.com/Electronic-Components/Integrated-Circuits/PIC-Microcontrollers/PICkit-2-Starter-Kit/77048/kw/97-0101?source=googleps&utm_source=googleps.
>
> There are also pic assemblers/compilers for linux which seem to work, gputils
>
> You can program them in C, but for very simple apps you can use PICs
> assembly language. Just bare in mine the extreamly limited memory and
> code space, but its sufficient for a lot of applications and you can
> do surprisingly complex things
>
> Robin
>
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