Pity, I'm still waiting for them to come down under. William Chops Westfield wrote: > On Tuesday, Apr 27, 2004, at 03:57 US/Pacific, Russell McMahon wrote: > >> You are invited to a Microcontroller Seminar hosted by Atmel >> Corporation with an in-depth look into the AVR, ARM and 8051 >> microcontroller products. > > > I went to the first of these (About two years ago?) and was pleasantly > surprised at the level of technical content, BTW. Learned a fair > amount about some of the more obscure parts (FPSLIC), the at8515 to > atmega8515 conversion, and so on. The people giving the presentations > had enough technical background to answer reasonably difficult > questions, too. Well worth attending, even without the freebies, if > it's reasonably convenient. > > It turned out that there were more freebies than advertised as well; > that year the adv freebie was a STK-500, and there were on-site signups > to get the FPSLIC addon and/or one of the ICE products... > > I believe last year's (which I didn't go to) was where they introduced > the AVR Butterfly... > > BillW -- ------------------------------------------------------ | Antonio (Nino) L. Benci | | Professional Officer, Electronic Services | | School of Physics & Materials Engineering | | Monash University | | email: electronic.services@spme.monash.edu.au | ------------------------------------------------------ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.