AVR-Chat

Thanks Kat,

I will try this approach. 
Mike 
--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Kathy Quinlan <kat-yahoo@...> wrote:
>
> Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> >> How do I set the simulator to use the 4 meg flash memory.
> 
> > No;  the AVR can't execute instructions directly from external  
> > memories like that.
> > 
> > There are a few (relatively rare) AVR parts that can execute from
RAM  
> > (one of the USB ones comes to mind), but no others that I know of  
> > that can execute normal AVR instructions from external memory.  
> > Especially serial flash memory like that, which takes quite a few  
> > cycles to move a single byte.
> > 
> > This doesn't mean that you couldn't write a program that could  
> > execute some kind of code from that memory; it just means that the  
> > AVR itself can't do that.
> > 
> I was writing a "Basic Stamp" type app for the AVR, but realised it was 
> going to be useless, it is just as easy to use BASCOM and compile and 
> send the assembled code down as it would to run an interpreter on chip. 
> BUT it is faster to compile once and download the assembled code :)
> 
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> Regards,
> 
> Kat.
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