>> Not only would that be cool, but what if it had 2 USARTs in an 8-pin
>>package...
>
>I would second this. Either 1 USART and 1 SPI/I2C or 2 USARTs in an 8-pin
>package.

Why hasn't anyone come up with a truly universal state machine that can do
USART, SPI, Microwire, I2C, synchronous serial and a couple more things
(like pwm) on the side ? All these share a number of modules, and it's
just a state machine after all. Each transmitter or receiver has a shift
register, a bit counter, has an action per bit sent, a start action, and a
stop action, and can be in one of four states: idle, starting,
sending/receiving, stopping.  There is also a bit counter, perhaps with
reloading. Why do these things have to come separate ?

Peter

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