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By tequilaguru
#14921
Freescale's MC56F8XXX, They have free samples, The Hybrid MCU (MCU + DSP MAC) has standard jtag interface, They give away 16K of C compiler.

This is a very powerful 16 Bit MCU, You don'tm really need to even look at the manual (although is a must if you want to do more advanced stuff), most of the hardware can be used out of the box without any real MCU knowledge, meaning it has a preconfigured GUI to use the peripherals.

I'm using this MCU right now in a small robot, decoding the quadrature of an optical mouse using the build in peripheral.

It would be sweet to see some development boards based around this powerful lil' mcu.

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/sit ... 3662921379
By OLIMEX
#14924
we know Freescale and would have development boards for them already if they had distributor in Bulgaria ...
you know production can't be made with free samples :)

Best regards
Tsvetan
By tequilaguru
#14933
Too bad hehe, This small mcus really kick ***.