On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 17:19 +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> Still the core does not really occupy the bulk of the MCU. The
> memory and peripherals often occupy more space. Often
> the peripherals decide the chip selection. For example, we
> decided to use Silicon Labs C8051F MCU for an optic sensor
> since it has a fast ADC and no PIC16F/18F have the
> ADC performance we need.

Yes, ADC performance has been a limitation with PICs, even their DSP
line often doesn't have "enough" ADC for me.

> http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc3323.pdf
> is a nice white paper from Atmel. (But it is a pain that copy and
> paste is not allowed!)

Ahh, Linux(or other alternate OSs) to the rescue. Flip one option in the
config of KPDF and you can copy to your hearts content!

TTYL

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