AVR-Chat

Dave VanHorn wrote:
> There's something new coming.. AVR32 with STK-1000
> 
> 16 registers in the register file, hardware context switching with some 
> number of mirrored registers.  Four levels of interrupt priority, 64 
> interrupt groups, and 32 lines per group (that's a LOTTA ISRs!)
> 
> Instructions for moving blocks of registers.
> 32 bit barrel shifter.
> Data and code cacheing.
> 
> 
> Chips not for a few months according to the article in Electronic 
> Design. Java support, Possibly built-in ethernet controllers.
> STK1000, with studio, GCC, linux 2.6 kernel, IAR's EWAVR32
> 
> Looks like interesting on-chip debug support too.
> 
>

Just when the SAM7 was looking like an obvious move it's back to processor 
procrastination. Bugger!


Looks pretty shiny in the article ;-)

Don