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Hi,

> It's good to see AVR users aren't one eyed re processors.

right part for the right job :-)

> I used 8051's from Cygnal (Silicon Laboratories) a while ago and was
> very surprised. They are nothing like the 8051's of old. They are
> Code compatible with the old ones but they are genuine one clock for
> one operation; not divided by 12 as they used to be.

nice.

 > They do have a couple of irritating things (like a crossbar register
> that doesn't deliver what you initially expect and register/bit
> differences between the family). But speed wise they are pretty good
> for a low end processor (suggested on the site at 25 >> 100 mips) and
> from playing with them they aren't that far off.

hey, no we're cooking! 100MIPs!! most excellent <bill and ted guitar motion>
Thanks for the tip, I'll take a read and see what they're like.

Paul