Re: possibly interesting

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, John Dammeyer <johnd@...> wrote:

>
> Hi Graham,
>
> I saw the advertisement for it in the latest Circuit Cellar

magazine. What

> I found disappointing though was the amount of memory available for each
> processor. Human Interface devices dealing with LCD displays etc.

tend to

> require lots of memory for either images or text. Using a processor

with

> 256K flash and 12K RAM like a 9S12 series would be more than fast

enough and

> also have the large scale memory for dats structures, text messages

and even

> graphic applications. Don't really know if a 8 processor module

gains one

> anything.
>
> John Dammeyer
>
>

They seem to have a charector set built into ROM. I like the fact you
can produce video out and put that straight into a little TFT screen,
for some of the stuff I want to do such as tool path progress, that
would be nice and would not tie my hardware to a specific display.

For me 8 processors might allow me to split tasks, one can record
pulses to the MMC card, the other can keep track of current position,
the next deal with the display. I need to read more I spend any money
though.

Graham