At the intersection of FPGAs and retro computing, has anyone ever messed with this?
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki I'm thinking about giving it a spin. Regards, Kevin Griffis On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 6:02 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/27/2021 1:12 PM, 'Michael Chaney' via NLUG wrote: > > My younger son is at Alabama working on an EE degree (you may remember > > him as a baby 20 years ago when the wife and kids showed up to a > > meeting). Last semester he had a class on microcontrollers, and they > > specifically used PIC series microcontrollers. He (and I) bought this > > evaluation package that comes with four different microcontrollers: > > > > > https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technology/DM330013-2/2802029?s=N4IgTCBcDaILYEsDGAnA9gZwC7INYAIEEQBdAXyA > > < > https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technology/DM330013-2/2802029?s=N4IgTCBcDaILYEsDGAnA9gZwC7INYAIEEQBdAXyA > > > > > > They're interesting because the package contains the CPU along with > > some amount of RAM and a little bit of flash. All of the external > > pins on the package are IO pins, except for the required power and > > clock pins. The IO pins are remappable and come in a couple of > > flavors - some can do analog and pretty much all can be digital. They > > have a couple of built in UARTs. The whole thing is amazing. > > PIC Microcontrollers are pretty amazing. I got a chance to work with > them back in the early 2000s. Huge variety of package types and > functionality and they've only improved since then. Also relatively > cheap and they had a "free sample" program that was very handy on occasion. > > If you want to jump into that side of things now, I'd recommend trying > one of the ESP packages. They have an SDK based off of the Arduino one > (I.e. C/C++ like) though there is some Python support and possibly other > higher-level languages, I think. > > Rich > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/a11eb714-7ef0-3241-d8f7-31ac571d8170%40rtcons.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAAHY2PnmV%3DnmFg7VycDcH4w1TOxAPXGngvnpQMrt0Wh5DVQpog%40mail.gmail.com.
