Re: Low voltage hobbyist-accessible microcontrollers?

From: Dave VanHorn (dvanhorn_at_cedar.net)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:35:17 -0500

> When I attended an Atmel seminar back in june, the atmel reps said that
> the avr
> arch is optimized for C and they do not recommend using an assembler.

It is optimized for C, but that has no bearing on using it with assembler.
That's what I do for a living. 

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KC6ETE  Dave's Engineering Page, www.dvanhorn.org
Microcontroller Consultant, specializing in Atmel AVR

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