I was just at the annual Microchip seminar. They did so well on the A/Ds in the ir new products that what was going to be 10 bit is coming out as 12 bit... the 16C774 /773 are 12 bit... > From: Steven Kosmerchock > Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 8:16 AM > > Personally I like the idea!! Afterall if they want the best possilble product they need to put pride aside and get with the new technology. If AD and Microchip did get together I imagine the other mC's would be shaking in their socket pins. > > ---- PICLIST(a)MITVMA.MIT.EDU's Message ---- > > I went to an Analog Devices seminar today. Toward the end of the skit, they > showed a couple of slides of an 8051 based processor design coupled with a 12 > bit ADC and a 12 bit DAC, with other stuff. Seems a third party really wanted > this stuff, and most processor fabricators cannot do a very good job on analog . > Thus, most processors never go over 10 bits internal. I quizzed the fellow > about this defacto limitation, and he said, 'We're analog devices. Of course we > got the analog right. It is tested.".