AVR-Chat

John Samperi wrote:

>At 02:25 AM 11/01/2006, you wrote:
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>>  So...has anyone here overclocked AVR chips?
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>What is the fascination with over clocking chips?
>So far I run my chips at 8MHz (half the max speed )
>and find myself putting a few NOPs here and there to
>slow  them down. So WHY do you need to do it?
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  Quite simple:  I have potential applicaitonsd whre a 20 Mhz processor 
simply isn't fast enough.  The obvious solution, of course,m is another 
processor family, burt I *LIKE* the architecture of the AVR and would 
prefer to utilize AVRs.  Probably ain't going ot happen, though.

 On another note, I oknow a fellow I chat with on IRC who claims to work 
at Atmel.  he asserts that Atmel will be annoucnig (most likely in march 
or April) a new family of processors tentatively dubbed "AVR32" which 
are ellegedly targetted at competing withthe ARM9 family.  Interesting, 
if true.  Per this source, some of the earlirer and smaller versionm 
will be available in SMT  packages, but most willbe BGA (not good for 
hobbyists, but then, how many hjobbyists are using ARM9 anfd higher 
processors, eh?)

tom