New Microchip PIC processor.

[Bill the arcstarter]

Guys,
Microchip has just put into production an intesting fully flash processor 
which might be just about right for DIY_EFI applications:

http://www.microchip.com/10/Lit/PICmicro/16F87X/index.htm

This little guy contains all sort of goodies including:
Uart
PWM
5 or 8 channel 10bit A to D converters
8kwords Flash for Program AND/OR data
i/o out the wazoo

The important thing here is that uchip has finally done two things to their 
flash parts:
1) Included enough space (8K) to use useful
2) Allowed the processor to read/write the program space at runtime.  This 
would be very useful for fuel maps and the like.  Prior to this processor - 
that sort of thing would have required addition components.

Best of all - you can do in circuit programming and breakpointing via a 
3-pin interface, via a $150 MPLAB-ICD device.  Thats a nice price.

The parts are supposed to be something like $8.  Not sure if it has been in 
production long enough to actually be acquireable or not.

Thought someone might care about this.
-Bill


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