[Coco] PICs and S-Video

[Jim Cox]

It's an 8-bit RISC processor from Atmel:

http://www.atmel.com/products/AVR/

Apparently an nice little puppy to work with.

-Jim

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:30:50 -0500
  Alan Jones <w8oaj at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> What is "AVR" out of curiousity?
> 
> Alan
> 
> Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> 
>> Quoting Mark Marlette <mark at cloud9tech.com>:
>>
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> Go with an AVR, they are cheap, many choices under $5. 
>>>Programmers 
>>> are cheap.
>>>
>>> You understand 6809 assembly, picking up on the AVR... 
>>>no problem for 
>>> you.
>>
>>
>> Yeah I'll definatly second that, looked at PICs and AVRs 
>>when I got 
>> back into
>> doing electronic stuff, and decided that PIC asm was 
>>horrible ! AVR is 
>> much
>> closer to 6809, plus there is also a free GCC 
>>implementation.
>>
>> Also don't be put off by the fact that the max PIC speed 
>>is 40MHz, and 
>> AVR is
>> 20MHz, I believe that the PICs internally devide that by 
>>4 so it's 
>> effectivly
>> ony 10MHz.
>>
>> Just my 2 pence worth.....
>>
>> Phill.
>>
> 
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