CPU and hardware advice sought for EFI

Tony Bryant brd at paradise.net.nz
Tue Mar 5 08:58:17 GMT 2002


> Are you sure you realy need a 32 or even 16 bit processor? I'll bet you
> could use an Atmel Atmega128 running at 16MHZ and acomplish evrything you
> need to do with a fraction of the development time and costs.
> The ATMEGA will execute 1 instruction per clock which is quite good for
> most embedded processors. it would be dramaticly faster than a 68hc11 like
> is used in some GM's and even the aftermarket DFI computer(not the v7 its a
> 68332).

My advice is that unless the processor has a GCC target - forget it. Been down
that road too many times - Z80, 8051, ST6, M16C, etc, etc, etc.


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