Yea, we noticed this too.  Send your comments to EDN's micro editor

     markuslevy@aol.com

     We did!

     BTW, try to write a software SPI for the AVR and see how many words of
     code and what the execution speed would be vs. one for the PIC!

     BTW2, I personally think the Signetics 8X300 is the first 8-bit RISC.
     It had a total of 8 instructions.  Now THAT'S RISC!.

     Rgds, Brian.


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Subject: Re: Atmel claims to have first 8-bit RISC processor???
Author:  "Long; Mike" <Mike.Long@ALLIEDSIGNAL.COM> at Internet_Exchange
Date:    9/18/96 7:16 PM


I saw this as well and the claim even includes a reference to it's
Harvard Arch.  as well as something about being able to ' directly
address 8 Mbyte of program memory.'  With a 16 bit instruction?

Also claims to have an ANSI C compiler that as you read later in the
article will not be available until.....there it is... October from a
3rd party vendor.

No RAM?

But most of the specs read like a PIC

Mike
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From: Eric Thompson
To: Multiple recipients of list PICLIST
Subject: Atmel claims to have first 8-bit RISC processor???
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 1996 4:24PM

In the Sept 12 issue of EDN magazine ("Out in Front" section, page 21),
there is a press release from Atmel claiming that they have the FIRST 8
bit RISC processors?  Atmel calls this line of processors there AVR
series, and the first one is the AT90S1200.  For more details wait for
the Sept 12 issue to appear at http://www.ednmag.com/.  (It doesn't seem
to be there as of 9/18)

I find this to be quite odd because I've always thought of MicroChip as
having 8 bit RISC type processors?  Is this true??  Or is Atmel just not
aware that MicroChip exist? :-)

Any thoughts?

        - Eric Thompson