Robert Vassar wrote: > > Good grief! That's not a microcontroller! :-) > > > > I like the MCS-51 family, but they're kind of goofy to program in C, > and 8-bit. Upside, lots of vendors & variants, including the really > nice SiLabs mixed signal chips made here in Austin. AVR is much > nicer to code in C, and has great tool support, but they're single > source, and I have read that Atmel is not always completely > forthcoming in their errata. > > > Arm... If you need something that can run Linux.... But why not just > go for a Soekris board at that point? :-) > > > Rob > KC6OOM/5 > > You can do substantially better by using a suitable FPGA board. One can create a hardware timestamp counter with multiple capture registers that wont wrap around in less than a week or more together with whatever simple processors required for decoding GPS receiver data. A simple 16 x2 character LCD display or similar is easily added for field readout. Keyboards and pushbuttons together with serial ports USB ports etc are often provided so communications with A PC for data retrieval /storage is readily possible.
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