PIC Questions

[Jemison Richard]

Thank Orin,

You're right.  Lots of folks jumped in a helped me out.  Thank you all.
Now, back to school.......

rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Orin Eman [SMTP:orin at wolfenet.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 03, 1998 8:40 PM
> To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject:	Re: PIC Questions
> 
> 
> > For us novices, could you briefly explain what a PIC is exactly and
> describe
> 
> This has now been well covered!
> 
> > (manufacturer / model / part#) the board you mention.  Also a brief
> 
> Manufacturer: me
> Model: "the data aq board"
> Part #: don't have one ;)
> 
> It's an Audi 5 cylinder turbo engine specific board, though it could
> be adapted to other Bosch engine management systems.  It aquires
> ignition timing, a couple of duty cycles, 3 temperatures via
> thermocouples and some analog values.  These are displayed on
> an LCD (2x20) and dumped to serial.
> 
> > explanation of why you would prefer the PIC board to the HC11 (assuming
> you
> > could find an HC11 board).
> 
> Advantage to the PIC is that you need no external components other than
> a crystal and a couple of caps to make it run.  HC11 needs RAM at least
> (onboard probably not enough) and probably EPROM for final program.
> Thats two 28 pin or so chips as well as the CPU.  Yes, there are HC11s
> with onboard EEPROM, but it is too small to be really useful for code.
> 
> Orin.