On May 19, 2006, at 10:52 AM, James Newtons Massmind wrote:

> It might be worth a second to look at this one.... Looks darn close to  
> a low
> end pic to me and starts at 50 cents.
>
> http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol- 
> newsArticle&ID=8317
> 05&highlight=
>
They seem to have just announced a 6-pin version as well:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp? 
code=MC9RS08KA2

Not in anything as friendly as an SOT-23/6, though.

Depending on availability and support, this could give the
low-end PICs a run for their money; the freescale parts have
a couple of advantages (after a quick glance at the datasheets.
Could be wrong.)

1) up to 2k of flash, even in the 6pin part.,
2) includes 1-wire debug mode support.
3) same chip in an 8pin package has 8 usable pins.
4) internal clock is supposed to go 10MHz.

OTOH, they strongly imply that the 6pin part has 4 bidirectional
IO, and it certainly looks on more careful reading that one is
an input only and one is an output only...  Not a good start.

BillW
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