"King, Mike" <[email protected]> wrote: > Why would one choose an 8051 based microcontroller for new designs?
One argument that hasn't been posted so far: there's at least one (possibly more) 8051 IP core around that can be freely used, including integration into your own FPGAs or IC designs. That's one of the reasons why, when equipping a custom IC with a microcontroller core, an 8051 is often chosen. (Though I think that these folks probably don't also have to program the controller afterwards... Given a choice of two jobs where one involves programming an 8051-style controller, and another one a modern controller core, I'd for sure not touch the 8051 with a pole. There are also two non-Atmel AVR cores around, for example, but sure, if your company is labelled something else but "Atmel", you probably wouldn't want to claim ATmega103 compatibility in your datasheets. :) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
