Keil MCB900 and newer P89LPC932 chips

Hi larwe,

the LPC932A1 is drop-in compatible to the LPC932B and by the way you really want to use the A1, the first 932s had a problem that you could easily overwrite/erase the internal programming routines. This is fixed in the A1s

The LPC903 that you got can only run from internal RC oscillator but still works with the build in UART. afaik, this is the smallest 8-bit chip with a HW-UART.

Used both chip already, very nice low cost devices, you get 3.7 MIPS our of them running from the IRC-oscillator, much more than you get from a PIC and similar to the 4 MHz AVRs.

An Schwob

larwe wrote:

Great. Thanks :)

I didn't really look at the datasheet in detail yet, but the applications where I would use an 8-pin micro are those where I need all the I/Os and would need to use an internal RC clk anyway :) Good news about the UART, that's a nice feature.

Also, others in the 'small with UART' category, are the upcomming LP213/LP214/LP216 from Atmel. These also have _separate_ SPI ports, so you can do a SPI-UART in a TSSOP package.

-jg