On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Philippe Jadin wrote:

> The subject says all : has anyone used the basicX chip?
> look at : http://basicx.com


** BasicX:
That god among men, Peter Anderson, has a good bit of info on
both BasicX chips:
        http://www.phanderson.com/


** Object-Oriented Programmable Circuit:
        http://www.oopic.com/

Looks pretty nice, $49 dev, $39 chip qty 1.
Website has a good bit of content.


** MVS: 1200 Single Chip Computer (and 8515 Super CC)
        http://www.star.net/people/~mvs/

$7 devel (!?), $2/chip quantity 1000
Website sucks ass, basic is dumb but useful (think assembly with very
high-level features, like PWM, and "sense baudrate".)  But at ~$4-7/chip,
looks cool.  Check out ad in Electronics Now or whatever they're calling
it these days.


** Protean Logic's TICkit controller and I2C Extenders:
        http://www.protean-logic.com
        http://www.phanderson.com/TIC62/index.html

PIC-based, high-level Basic controller: $45/ea (standalone, only needs
power). I have one of these, and it rocks -- the library is moderately
large, clean, and documented.  Website is sorta stale, but has lots of
good content.

The Xtender product is even better: "5 channel 8bit A/D converter, a
buffered full duplex rs232 port, two multifunction counters/PWM
generators, 128 bytes of SRAM, a real time clock, a math lookup table, 8
general purpose I/O lines, an IRQ timebase, and a stepper motor
controller."  I2C-controllable, $14/ea.



hope this helps

- j