RE: [Development] Lights, 12 or 14 bit micro

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

16F84 £2-00 from www.crownhill.co.uk

Site is PAINFULLY SLOOOOOOOOW but the prices are very low.

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Hoye [mailto:james.hoye@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 June 2001 20:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [Development] Lights, 12 or 14 bit micro
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> > The last option does have other plus points, I will have a extra
serial
> > port which will allow control from othrt than tcp/ip if needed,
> much more
> > RAM, only 25 bytes on the 508 41 bytes on the 509, compaird with
192
> > bytes on most of the 14 bit parts, also there would be no
> address problem
> > as one micro would handle all 8 outputs.
> >
> > There is a down side, the parts cost is greater, if the pic gets
zaped
> > you will loose all 8 channels.
> >
> > Any comments
>
> How about 2 16Cxx PICS (the 16F84 ones are around ?4 from M****n if
they
> have any in stock - so with volume we should get them considerably
cheaper
> than that) one designated as MASTER, the other as SLAVE.  When the
device
> powers up, if after a preset time the SLAVE cannot communicate with
the
> MASTER (ie. it's fried) then it takes over....(and sends a concole
alert)?
> Or am I talking rubbish here?  Just thinking about reliability and
WAF.
>
> James
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