> CHEAP AS POSSIBLE
> 4 x 8 bit A2D required
> CHEAP AS POSSIBLE
> 2 PWM outputs (fast as possible/slow as necessary)
> CHEAP AS POSSIBLE
> Variable frequency square wave output
> Essentially real time multi-tasking.
>
> Also, the whole job must be as cheap as possible :-)
>
> While there are many nice processors available which would do the job
> well most seem to fail the prime directive (ie cheap as ..).
>
> The 16C71 or more modern variants seems to be about the minimum cost
> choice. Volumes are about 50,000pa and I think it gets down to around
> $US2 in this quantity. Less would be nice.
>
> I currently do not have a PIC ICE.
> This may finally be the time that I buy one.
> It seems very likely that a real time trace buffer is going to be
> useful.
>
> Coding will very probably be entirely in assembler.
>
>
> Questions:
>
> Users impressions of
>
> 1.    What's available?
> 2.    What's it cost?
> 3.    How good is it (in comparative and absolute terms.)
>
> would be welcome.
>
> ICE PICK, PICMASTER, ICEPICK-junior are names that comes to mind but
> I know there are a range of alternatives.
> All replies most welcome.
> Reply off list if you think the on-list bandwidth isn't justified.
> If I get a good range of off list replies I will summarise the
> results.
>
> regards
>
>             Russell McMahon
>