Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:28:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Cobalt Micro (was Re: Build your own Motherboards) |
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >> It's still much more complicated than things you need for a simple ISA > >> card -- a microcontroller instead of few TTL chips (or single GAL). > > > >On the contrary, you can do i2c with no additional hardware on the PC > >end, and with just i2c aware logic devices the other end if you wish. > > Micros are scarcely expensive anyway. You can get an 8051-compatible single > chip device for the price of a pint of beer. If you're lucky you get IIC in > hardware as well, otherwise you have to bang your own bits. Just add power, a > crystal and a bit of RC to kick it into life and away you go. Atmel do quite > a neat range of them with up to 20KB or so of flash on the chip. >
Anyone know where I can find x86 based micros with such neat features (builtin ram, flash, i2c, etc.)? I only know assembly on x86 and I dont think I would want to learn yet another asm just for a toy. :)
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