HI Everyone
I'm new to this group and seeking advise.
I've been out of the embedded side for too many years now while concentrating on Medical Practice software.
Seeing my retirement is only a week away and I have model railway that needs to look alive I thought I better pull the proverbial digit out and get into setting up some cpus for running some of the lighting on the layout.
My past experience been with various Motorola processors, and the occasional 8080/Z80 family members. I have a never used PIC system. In previous job a colleague was rather taken by the Atmel family so I thought I'd them a go.
The task I have is relatively straight forward,
A 0.5 second timer, that makes the processor advance through a table (probably each row a byte) and according data turns an LED connected to a given IO pin on or off. The 'table' will have 0.5 hr worth of data and when the end is reached will cycle through again. I may require from 16 to 20 output pins.
If ready made modules are available that can be programmed via USB it will be better still. I have enough soldering to do without making up SMD boards, because there will be a number of these required.
Any suggestion I will be most grateful for.
Kind Regard
Wolf
(Melb. Australia)