Re: PIC10F - is there a smaller mcu?

From: Tim Shoppa (shoppa_at_trailing-edge.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: 15 Jul 2004 04:48:43 -0700

"Roger Hamlett" <rogerspamignored@ttelmah.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<_kiJc.225$847.144@newsfe1-win.ntli.net>...
> "Tim Shoppa" <shoppa@trailing-edge.com> wrote in message
> news:bec993c8.0407140805.596ca78e@posting.google.com...
> > Maybe it's my daily dislike of software UART's :-). All but a few
> > "big" PIC's have zero or just one hardware UART, and that's just not
> > good
> > enough, even for my hobbyist-type-sit-between-two-serial-ports stuff I
> > do not want to spend all day dinking around with making my own UART.
>
> One chip that is worth mentioning in regard to the lack of UARTs on the
> PIC, is the MAX3110. This is a complete UART, and transceiver, with an SPI
> interface.

The first thing I can say is "why don't they put a PIC on there too ? :-)"

At 28 pins it kinda dwarfs a PIC10F, it probably costs ten times as
much too (not that I've seen prices for PIC10F's, but the MAX3110 is
like $7 each). I do appreciate they have the
charge pump caps onboard, but for my apps I'd also appreciate a version
that does RS-423 or something differential.

Don't take those as complaints... it's a neat gadget. If only I knew
a place that stocked them.

Tim.

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