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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>Sent: 08 September 2005 09:57
>To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
>Subject: RE: [AVR] Brown out problems
>
>
>Maybe MSP430 and Silicon Labs C8051F are good alternatives to 
>AVRs. C8051F is really fast. 

The Si-labs parts are almost certainly going to be adopted for future projects, they have a very nice set of peripherals.  Only downside is that the I/O pins and peripherals pins are not multiplexed like the PIC and AVR devices, so if you need a lot of I/O you need a very high pin count.  However, that's something we can live with.


Keil C51 is one of the best
>embed C compilers. The free SDCC is also usable for 8051.
>Right now we are testing the EMC of C8051F30x and seems it
>is not as good as PICs (latch up problem) but this may
>be due to the small board size. Another product with
>bigger board size (bigger ground) has no problems with EMC
>with the same C8051F part.

Interesting, thanks for the information.  We've also not seen any problems with the PIC and EMC, but perhaps this is something we may need to look at when we migrate.

Regards

Mike

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