wtd: Fujitsu Micro16s

There was (and may still be) a fellow on Ebay selling a pair for $6 shipped. Ah, here it is <http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-MB90552APF-Fujitsu-MCUs-100-Pin-QFP-FREE-SHIP_W0QQitemZ3859487622QQihZ017QQcategoryZ50915QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem> I bought a couple from him but have not done anything with them. They came wrapped in antistatic wrap that was bundled up in tape. I don't know if they were already bent, or if I bent the pins undoing the tape, but either way I was not impressed with his packaging job. It's been a while, so my memory is hazy, but somehow I was able to request a CD or DVD of development software from Fujitsu. The European Fujitsu sites seem to have better information on them. Plus I don't think I saw any development boards advertised anywhere except on the European site. However, when I started thinking at the fine detail level, i.e. how do I develop software and run it on this board, as opposed to the coarse detail level, i.e. this board has enough IO pins and memory to do what I want, I realized that having a decent development kit would be very important. The tiny bits of obscure information that the sellers publish about their development kit totally put me off compared to some of the great information that's out there for kits for the Freescale 9S12 for example. So ultimately, I decided that the Fujitsu MCUs will probably stay in a drawer because it's just to big a pain and risk to get a decent development board for them. Of course, my research may have been incomplete or inaccurate and I'd be happy to be shown that it was. Jeff Walther