!!!

Cheaper than Mchips 10f series? Last time I looked the AVR stuff was
overpriced. I think I will have to look again.

Thanks,
  Ben

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:49:26 -0700, William Chops Westfield
<westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Went to the Atmel seminar today.  It wasn't quite as interesting as the
> last one I attended (two years ago); perhaps too much was repetition.
> They do claim to be working on USB AVRs with flash, as well as
> ethernet,
> but they aren't close enough for any details to be available.
>
> The newer low-end chips (40 pins and less) will have a one-wire
> debugging interface with functionality similar to the JTAG capability
> in the current large (ATMEGA) chips.  That sounds somewhat nice.
> You'll need a new "JTAG ICE Mark 2" (which interfaces to computer via
> USB) to use it, though...
>
> However, the AVR marketing critter claimed that we would be able to buy
> ATTINY11 chips (Atmel's low-end 8 pin chip.  Analog comparator, 1 8bit
> timer, 1K flash, no eeprom, no ram) at $0.25 each in any quantity.  I
> guess this is some sort of preemptive effort against the new microchip
> low end flash parts (pic12F508, pic10f.)  Perhaps I misunderstood, and
> this was only for the duration of the seminar; I haven't found a vendor
> publishing that price yet.  On the other hand, Digikey IS advertising
> $0.54 each (1) to $0.37 each (100), which is still pretty cool.
>
> BillW
>
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