[sdiy] Now what?!?! AVR, PIC, or Scenix SX?

[Rob B]

Well, IIRC, there are some 80XX variants that are *very* low power, and
surface mount to boot, which is all I do layout in anymore because its just
soo much easier (I figure I gotta do it now while I am young, while I still
have my 20/400 built-in microscopic vision and all and don't shake too much)


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----- Original Message -----
From: "GothGeek Sysadmin" <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
To: "Rob B" <cyborgzero at home.com>
Cc: "synth DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Now what?!?! AVR, PIC, or Scenix SX?


> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:18:14PM -0500, Rob B wrote:
> > Scenix - Fast, cheap to emulate, hard to find, lots of IO.
> > PIC - Not so fast, a bit expensive to emulate, but cheap and easy to
find.
> > Atmel - Not all that fast, fairly cheap, very cheap to emulate, and they
are
>
> Personally, I lean towards using the old slow tried and true Intel 803x
> series.  The one huge advantage is there are *tonnes* of tools out there
> for development and in 50 years someone somewhere will probably still be
> making them.  Disadvantages, takes up lots of board space and draws
> relatively alot of power.
>
> I've heard that Scenix chips can be in some applications Dirt slow.  I've
> used them for some non-music things and they are pretty fast as long as
> you dont do any I/O.
>
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