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From: newman@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Bill Newman)
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Subject: information wanted: microcontrollers with slave bus interfaces
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I am interested in pointers to microcontrollers which have registers, ports,
and handshake lines built in to allow them to serve as passive devices on
another bus, in the same way as your typical UART, PIO, or what have you.
I am particularly interested in microcontrollers with internal program RAM
which can be set by the bus master on system startup.
I once read a data sheet for one of Intel's microcontrollers (UPI?)
which was designed to be accessed from an 80xx family bus, 
and to serve e.g. as a keyboard controller, but the version that I saw 
was ROM programmed.  So far I don't know of any such devices
whose program RAM can be set by the bus master on startup.

Please e-mail responses; if I get useful feedback, I'll summarize.

  Thanks,
    Bill Newman
    newman@theory.tn.cornell.edu