The Miniboard Again ...

[Rod Barman]

Well yes I know the miniboard ONLY has 2K of EEPROM and 256 bytes of
RAM, but guess what???   Bosch Motronic 1.0 is implemented in 4K of
ROM and 128 bytes of RAM and that system contains a bunch of extra
maps and goop and it uses a pathetic processor.

You see, this is in part why I suggested we do the ignition controller
first.  This will easily fit in 2K of EEPROM.  Everybody can write
code and download it from there PC, MAC, Unix box.  Yes, we should
write stuff in assembler cause some dummies (Hi Jim!!!) don't know
C and besides, there really isn't much code to write it just is
very difficult to write it and get it correct.

Sure we can use a fancy processor, sure we can have a fancy development
system, sure we can plan a nifty built in alarm system that controls the
windshield wipers, sure we can spend days getting our WWW home page just 
right ;-), but I think most people want to get out there and fiddle with
their cars and write code and not spend a lot of money.

Anyway, that's how I see (especially since I've got two extra minboards 
I don't know what to do with :-).

--rod.

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Rod Barman, IRIS NCE @ Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, 
University of British Columbia
rodb at cs.ubc.ca