AVR-Chat

I have been looking for a board with a Mega128, ethernet and compact 
flash. I can't find one on the link page. The ATA hard drive 
controller board had a Mega128 but that is no longer available.


--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Dave VanHorn <dvanhorn@d...> wrote:
> At 11:56 AM 1/28/2005, joseph torelli wrote:
> 
> >How about Compact Flash? They are big memory and cheap. But I 
don't know how
> >fast. I purchased a demo card that has an ATMega128, ethernet, and 
a compact
> >flash.
> >I program in Bascom and have made the compact flash work. I am 
still in the
> >early testing stages. It works like IDE hard drive. Storing data 
in files
> >may not be good for your app.
> >
> >http://members.home.nl/bzijlstra/hardware/hardware.htm
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't think serial interface will be fast enough, 
although 
> it would be acceptable for loading the data into memory.
> What I'm envisioning, is a parallel connection, 8 or preferrably 16 
bit, 
> with the AVR just strobing pins to achieve the transfers by hitting 
read on 
> the dataflash, and write on the other device, and letting the one 
drive the 
> other.   I never need to "SEE" the data, I just need to shovel it.