18 Jul
2010
18 Jul
'10
7:55 p.m.
On 7/17/10 1:49 AM, Rick wrote:
Interesting article. I am a big fan of the ez80f91. I
find the data throughput rate so efficient that it's hard to over tax the CPU.
I've built some pretty elaborate hardware/software systems using it! One thing
I've been curious about and I want to try this myself some time. I wonder if
anyone's ever built an LCD controller using the ez80? I believe it should be possible
to get VGA quality out of it.
I too love the eZ80F91. I've done a few commercial designs with it.
It is a seriously fast processor with a wonderful feature set for
embedded applications, and the familiarity (to me) of the Z80
instruction set just makes the firmware work that much more enjoyable.
I've mostly moved to ARM7 for those types of applications now...If
Zilog would wake up and port their compilers to modern platforms, I'd
probably be using eZ80F91s as much as (or more than) ARM7 these days.
Sadly it seems their management doesn't listen, though.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL