>Hi Folks,
>
> I haven't seen it here yet, but I thought I'd point out that on
Microchip's
> web page they've got a 76 page .pdf file entitled "Future Products".

> To summarize, in this they list a bunch of new products including:

> Enhanced 8-Pin Devices (with EEPROM)
> Mixed Signal Devices
> EEPROM/Flash Parts capable of running up to 20 MHz
>EEPROM/Flash Parts that will replace the current EPROM line
>   - These parts include built in Reset and the 12C5xx's RC Oscillator
>   - Big YAY on this one - You will be able to get 16 I/O on an 18 Pin
Device
> Upgraded Serial EEPROM Products
> MPLAB C v2.xx
> MPLAB ICE a cheap(er) ICE?

One thing that was not mentioned in the message above is the fact that
it appears that some of these new devices may be using a new
architecture, namely the 16C164/165/174/175/176/177/178/179/185.
According the future products document these devices have (among other
things):

        - C-Compiler optimized instruction set
        - Linear program memory addressing to 128K byte
        - Linear data memory addressing to 4K bytes
        - Software stack capability

I would be interested to know what the instruction set and architecture
of these devices look like.


Ray G.