You're right. And he is a team of brave people (albeit a small one). You can see how C *might* just improve maintainability.
The speedup is mainly through demuxing the external busses, actually only running 40MHz.
Yepp, did the numbers on this one, too. Have done it before when a processor disappeared under us some 20+ years ago.
Cheers, Alf
is this 512KB of CODE ? - The only time I've seen such large 8051 footprints, have been where extensive menus, and multi-languages, were included. That stuff can go into cheap serial data-flash these days; code memory is too expensive for that. How much RAM does this system need, storing what sized variables ?
-jg
Farcall, LOL. I love it! If I can't get it into this project, I'll have to start another just to use it. processor.
Yepp, that's another column in my KT matrix.
Cheers, Alf
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