Scott Newell <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> The Analog Devices fixed point DSP chips are also Harvard
> architecture (or is it 'modified' Harvard artchitecture?), but they
> were clever enough to include a bus exchange for transferring
> between program and data space. They use a dedicated register to
> hold the extra byte (program memory is 24 bits, data memory is 16
> bits).
>
> I've always wondered why Microchip didn't do something similiar.

    Scott:

    Microchip DID do something similar... Take a look at the 17Cxx
    devices.

    -Andy

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