In our game we use a 8051 family, we have successfully create a
control application in C.

Paul Hodel

--- In laser_design@yahoogroups.com, "kyraeric" <kyraeric@...> wrote:
>
> I've been doing some research on uC's for the tag boards, and it
> seems the the Atmel AVR line of uC's will be both the cheapest and
> most powerful for our application. In specific I'm looking at
using
> the AT90S2313 model. It has an 8-bit and 7-bit I/O pins, 2K of
> Flash program memory, 128B of SRAM on chip, and 128B of EEPROM,
> programmable both through ISP, and the assembly code.
>
> I've also put on order from amazon a book about AVR programming
> which goes in depth on the AT90Sxxxx models, and a book from
> O'Reilly on designing embedded hardware, in hopes that it will
catch
> me from falling into any common pitfalls.
>
> Right now it looks like the best way to interface the AVR with the
> rest of the system is to use the 7-bit pins as an address
, and
> the 8-bit pins as data lines for a bus, using the uC as a bus
master
> which can control reads and writes to 64 different devices, which
> ought to be more than enough for our purposes.
>