Grant Beattie wrote:

"Now having said that, I find it distressing that Philips never included USB in their 8051's. They produced a peripheral (the 'D11) that was controlled over I2C. I made one product with that. The D11 is EOL now, I think. Plus it was goofy."

The D12 has a parallel microcontroller interface (ALE, AD, IOW, IOR). Yeah, a slow I2C interface IS goofy!

"But if Motorola can make HC08's with USB, there is no excuse that we can't buy an LPC9xx with USB."

I agree. There's a handful of other 8051 derivatives with full-speed USB support. Dunno why Philips isn't interested.

-a