Use newer chips

Created Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:33:39 +0000 by griffo

griffo

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:33:39 +0000

Can chipkit make a board for the newer 32MX 28PIN series of chips,,also without the ftdi chip.....Thanks

les1943

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000

I'd buy that... :)

EmbeddedMan

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:42:17 +0000

The newer 28 pin parts only go up to 32K flash. You wouldn't be able to put a very big sketch in there. Also, USB takes up at least 4 pins, plus MCLR, power, ground, and there's only 14 I/O pins available.

Also note that, while cheaper, these parts run at a maximum of 40MHz (half the speed of the current boards) and have no cache, so their performance will be significantly less than the current crop of chipKITs.

That being said, they are much less expensive and have PPS.

*Brian

griffo

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:19:53 +0000

Hi...I have seen a microchip board called MicroStick 2,,,This looks like the sort of thing...I was thinking of...Thanks

avenue33

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:46 +0000

A chipKIT nano32 :?:

EmbeddedMan

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:18:10 +0000

You never know - somebody might be coming up with something almost exactly like what you're talking about as we speak . . .

*Brian