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05/04/05 20:43
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#92939 - beware of SILabs
Responding to: ???'s previous message
If you use SILabs chips beware.

They consider standards a joke.

Some of the chips (especially the later releases) have crazy stuff like XTAL2 as the input to the oscillator, non-standard SFRs with standard names, standard SFRs with nonstandard names and more.

There is nothing, per se, wrong with the chips, but if you are going by '51 experience you WILL get caught.

SO, make sure you study all 100+ pages of the datasheet for that particular device and when you choose another of their offerings, do it again for that chip.

Please note: this is not a criticism of enhancements (I love them) but of being different for the sake of being different (what would be so hard naming the oscillator input XTAL1 ?)

Erik

List of 18 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Smallest 8051?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Low pin count            01/01/70 00:00      
   Philips 89LPC            01/01/70 00:00      
   Re: Smallest 8051 ?            01/01/70 00:00      
      beware of SILabs            01/01/70 00:00      
         HVQFN            01/01/70 00:00      
            corrected verbage            01/01/70 00:00      
               even more funky            01/01/70 00:00      
            Re: HVQFN            01/01/70 00:00      
               Funky?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Ah you young whippersnappers            01/01/70 00:00      
               HVSON            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Re: HVSON            01/01/70 00:00      
      I'll try this one            01/01/70 00:00      
         compared to what?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Not '51...            01/01/70 00:00      
   try this link            01/01/70 00:00      
   Philips LPC through the back door            01/01/70 00:00      

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