Looking for an IDE simulator

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Aug 29 13:31:14 CDT 2020


On 8/28/20 1:51 PM, David Bridgham via cctalk wrote:
> On 8/28/20 4:00 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> 
>> Plenty of code libraries out there.  Why dink around when silicon is
>> cheap?  MCUs are everywhere; in many cases cheaper than discrete logic.
> 
> 
> Might have been better but I had the FPGA there anyway for other reasons
> so I just connected a few pins to the SD card and started writing code.

I'll add tangentially that an MCU can not only give you full-4-bit width
SDHC access, but also has a lot of extra goodies, such as USB OTG and
even ethernet built on.  Goven modern MCUs, I don't think I'd even
consider using programmable logic for this particular task.

--Chuck



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