On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:49:26 -0700, you 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.

..and they actually show stock, that's novel for Atmel.... I'd still be =
nervous designing it in with
their past history.

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