6800 development kit wanted

[John Larkin]

I'll keep looking until I find what I'm after. Is the assembly language the
same for the 68HC05P as the 6800 processor?

Mildly different, but similar in philosophy. The 05 has less registers
(one 8-bit accumulator, one 8-bit index) and a crummy branch set; it's
basicly a stripped 6800, which is weird considering the semiconductor
progress between the two. At least the 05 has a multiply. Both are a
pita compared to more modern chips, but nothing's as bad as an
8048/8051.

John

 

[Chaos Master]

It was written by The Man With The Harmonica (formerly
MNQ)[[email protected]] in message <[email protected]>:

[6800/6805]

Rich,

I wrote some code for the pic16f84 about five years ago. If the 6800 is not
available anymore I will consider taking the pic route and do some pic
programming. I have the details for the Tait Programmer (David Tait used to
be my lecturer). Do you know if the 16F84 is still available? Afew years
ago someone told me it wasn't.

The 16F84 has been made obsolete by other modern PIC's, but it shouldn't be
hard to find.

[]s

 

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

The 6805 or even the 68000 will do as a learning tool. My reason is that I
feel I am loosing some of the skills that I learnt whilst at university
since starting work. I want to keep those skills and improve on them.

Recent knowledge of Dead Platforms look bad on the C.V.!!

There is the Atmel AVR embedded controllers - and there is a port of the Gnu
C/C++ compiler for that!!!

Then there is the Analog Devices SHARC DSP's;

Finally Infineon (Siemens) and ST have a bunch of embedded controllers
featuring stuff like CAN, Ethernet, and Built-In 3-phase Motor Drive logic.

Depends what you want to do with it!

Whatever you choose should have SW Tools with them; poking about in
Assembler is just not fun anymore when those embedded micros carry much more
punch in terms of MIPS, RAM and "HD" i.e. FLASH Rom than the first
generation of 486 desktop PC's - all on-chip, of course ;-).