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From: jrichard@cs.ulowell.edu (John 'MacGyver' Richardson)
Subject: Re: gcc cross compiler for the 6811?
In-Reply-To: greyham@research.canon.oz.au's message of Tue, 6 Oct 1992 12:31:41 GMT
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   doug@cc.gatech.edu (Doug MacKenzie) writes:
   >How about using one of the Motorola 6833x micro-controllers and avoid the
   >whole 6811 compiler problem completely?  The new 68333 is a 68332 with
   >64K bytes of EEPROM, 4K battery backed ram & 8 channel 10bit A/D unit,
   >all on one chip.  In march, samples were $199, I assume the price is less
   >now.

This sounds good, but we need a board designed for robotics that will use 
this CPU (and I'm sure others would too).  About how much power would a 6833x
use anyway?  Will Motorola ship us the spec sheets/books?  

Along those lines, are there any good books that can jump start CS 
grad/undergrads into the EE world of designing controllers?  This is the 
biggest problem we've run into trying to build robots...


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