I guess for clearity sake I should expound a bit more. My initial intent was to build a system purely in hardware. But my specifications require adding error-checking capabilities to the aging MIDI protocal. I will be sending critical MIDI data over an RF transmission and have to generate some sort of ECC or check-sum based on the data processed. As you can imagine, it\'s no small task to try and build this thing in hardware. Due to time constraints, I\'ve got to go the quick and dirty route and write C code that will accomplish what I\'m wanting to do. I have had experience with a 8051 based microcontroller before, but I was given a prototyping board, explained what pins do what as was thrown to the wolves to write some serial communication routines. So, I don\'t have the experience in knowing exactally what hardware I need, but I\'m fairly comfortable with how to use it. If that makes any since at all.
I guess all I need to know at this point is a best guess on whether or not the 32K onboard flash memory will be enough for my project.
In short I\'ll have MIDI in going into the 8051, analyze the signal and adding some error checking (an extra byte of data let\'s say), sending that data out to an RF transmitter, recieving the signal on an RF reveiver and then going through another 8051 for decoding and checking, then send the origional (hopefully origional that is) MIDI message to whatever MIDI device i\'m controlling.
Again i\'m looking at the atmel AT89C51RC series processor and the proflash89 programming device that\'s advertised on this site. I assume that the binary file compiled from any 8051 compatiable compiler will work. I just want to make sure that my processor, programmer, and compiler will work together before i shell out the cash.
thanks guys, you\'ve both already been a HUGE help.
-Cole