[sdiy] Zilog Z8 Encore

[Steve Thomas]

I would really like to buy this..unfortunately of the two distributors
in the UK one wouldnt sell to anyone apart from account holders..the other 
had a $150 min purchase! I suppose could order from Digikey but the 
shipping seems prohibitively expensive  to the UK (assuming the whole 
package weighs >1lb ?)

Oh well ..maybe Farnell will eventually get hold of them ...
I must say the spec on these  encore chips looks very sexy ...

cheers
steve T 

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, The Proteus wrote:

> 	Okay, this is definitely DIY-Worthy. Zilog just started a big
> marketing push for their Z8 Encore! CPU's, which actually are pretty damn
> slick. I bought an evaluation kit which contains an evaluation board,
> software development environment (including C compiler, deubgger, etc),
> BDM module, and documentation for $50US. The really nice part is that I
> called my distributor before I ordered this kit to find out how much the
> actual CPUs are: $7.11 in piece (1+) quantities. 
> 	This CPU (the Z8F6403) is pretty slick. 8-Bit Z8e MPU core,
> 12-channel 10-bit ADC, 64KB of flash on board, 4KB of RAM, two UARTs, I2C
> and SPI interfaces, timers, 3 channel DMA, and the list goes on... this is
> better *and* cheaper than most of the comparable AVR and PIC
> microcontrollers I've found. Quite a DIY product too... this is going into
> several projects I've got planned. :D
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Prot
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