[Diy_efi] EEPROM based efi compter, DIY style.

[Bill Shaw]

Renesas has some nice small processors also.  The dev environment is 
free if you can live with a 64k code size limit,  and you flash & debug 
through a USB dongle you get with an eval board.  I've stopped using 
PICs after a few dozen products and move to Renesas.

And surface mount at home isn't so tough,  you just have to get a 
different soldering iron :-) ...

https://www.articulationllc.com/categoryNavigationDocument.hg?categoryId=6

Bill


Steven P. Donegan wrote:
> My current interceptor board uses a PIC 16F876A - fairly fast and a lot
> of resources for a PIC. And being lazy on this design I'm just using
> MBASIC. However, since I am a C programmer and do have a couple of
> LPC2106 based dev boards my next design will use an ARM. If they were
> just available in non-surface mount packages I would be really happy -
> doing surface mount at home is a real challenge...
>
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:45 -0600, Steve Ravet wrote:
>   
>>  
>>     
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: diy_efi-bounces at diy-efi.org 
>>> [mailto:diy_efi-bounces at diy-efi.org] On Behalf Of Bevan Weiss
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:39 PM
>>> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] EEPROM based efi compter, DIY style.
>>>
>>> The PICs are horrible to program, unless you go to the 16 or 
>>> 18 series and can use C, in which case you pretty much have 
>>> to purchase a compiler.
>>>       
>> I'm using my last PIC processor right now.  It's an 18 and I use C but I
>> still don't like it.
>>
>>     
>>> The ARMs aren't that difficult to program, and if you're just 
>>> learning are no harder than an alternative micro.  The ARM7s 
>>> are also really really cheap, and you can generally get 
>>> samples of them pretty easily.  
>>> http://www.olimex.com have some good development boards.
>>>       
>> I agree, go with the ARM :-)
>>
>> --steve
>>
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