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From: nanders@plains.NoDak.edu (Noel Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: cheap microcontroller systems
Keywords: small cheap not-so-fast
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Date: 15 Dec 90 20:01:28 GMT
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I would suggest the Motorola 68HC11evb which lists at $168 ($68.11,
educational).  The board comes with an assembler, an HC11 reference
manual, and an EVB reference manual.  You need to provide a power
supply and a cable to your host (PC, Mac, whatever).

The evb includes parallel and serial I/O (I think at 25 mA, not the
desired 50 mA), a timer which can be programmed for time of day use,
and a dedicated 6850-based serial port.  A BASIC interpretter may be
obtained from the Motorola BBS.  At NDSU we've developed a Borland-style
program development environment and simulator which facilitates assembly
language programming.  We use the environment and evb in one of our
microprocessor courses and have been pleased with it.

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Noel W. Anderson                  nanders@plains.nodak.edu (Internet)
Asst Prof, Computer Engineering           uunet!plains!nanders (UUCP)
EEE Dept, North Dakota State University       nanders@plains (Bitnet)