Microchip adds new pin-peripherals, follows Prop
jmg
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I see Microchip have taken a leaf from the Prop, and now offer a NCO and complementary (but with deadband) control, on some of their new parts. (even the tiny PIC10F32X)
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/41565b.pdf
Deeply embedded uC are still all about 'smart pins', so this is a logical move.
Their NCO variant, has pulse width options, so you can get precise control of average Frequency and On-time independently, which is useful in certain (quasi) resonant converter designs & ballasts.
Hopefully the Prop II will see smarter NCO, and better pin-access to the timers, and maybe dead-band
- there are some things still best done in HW.
There are already multi core/thread 8051's - will Microchip do a multi-core pic ?
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/41565b.pdf
Deeply embedded uC are still all about 'smart pins', so this is a logical move.
Their NCO variant, has pulse width options, so you can get precise control of average Frequency and On-time independently, which is useful in certain (quasi) resonant converter designs & ballasts.
Hopefully the Prop II will see smarter NCO, and better pin-access to the timers, and maybe dead-band
- there are some things still best done in HW.
There are already multi core/thread 8051's - will Microchip do a multi-core pic ?
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Yes, but the "configurable logic", is close to brain-dead, just the simplest logic you can imagine. AND/OR/XOR/FF
Even Silego, which is 'minimal' in the extreme, has more configurable logic...
I was thinking more of the 14 & 20 pin parts, where it might have been useful.
The tiny parts are less lobotomised than their earlier 6 pin ones, for a small price change.
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/41565b.pdf
I'll be trying some of them out with the PIC16F1826. It's pin-compatible with the older 16F88 for which I've got several prototyping boards that I've made.