I must say, If you need any literature on Zilogs products, they will send it out to you free of charge providing you are a business. Which is better than most giants as far as I can tell. Adam Mead -----Original Message----- From: Russell McMahon To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Thursday, 13 January 2000 5:41 Subject: Re: [OT] Cheap microcontroller <$0.50USD? >As Dave says, Zilog. >Surprisingly powerful little beasts at some of the lowest prices out. >There are cheaper but you are usually into specialist 4 bit stuff. > >Despite what he says :-) they provide a very nice ICE (without trace memory) >for $100 (in whatever your currency is more or less). >This is a very useful beast - assemble, download, run to breakpoint, >display registers, memory etc, change as desired, single step etc etc. I'm >impressed. I think Dave had some bad experiences with Zilog in the past. I >have so far found them helpful. > >Also the PIC 16C505 is close. > > > Russell McMahon >_____________________________ > >>From other worlds - www.easttimor.com > www.sudan.com > >What can one man* do? >Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! >at http://www.thehungersite.com/ > >(* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-)) > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeff King >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Date: Thursday, 13 January 2000 10:44 >Subject: [OT] Cheap microcontroller <$0.50USD? > > >>I've heard rumors of the sub $0.50 USD microcontroller, but >>does such a thing exist? I'd be interested in such a animal should >>it exist in the 4000-5000 piece price range. I don't think I'd need >>much.... just need to meet (or exceed) the specs of a 12C508A-04. >> >>As always, thanks to such a helpful list. Always my first read in the >>morning. >> >>Best regards, >> >>Jeff wb8wka >> >