Kevin's Korner

8051s and 8051s with flash and one more thing

Last month we were talking about 8051-derivatives with flash memory. I said I thought WaferScale had one and Ting said they just had a second chip solution. Ting was correct, they have a good one with I/O etc on-board and a CPLD incorporated as well:

http://www.waferscale.com/8051.html

Speaking of programmable logic for 8051s, here is the vendor who has an 8051 core with programmable logic on-chip:

http://www.triscend.com/

Here is a list of 8051-derivatives. As you can see, there are a few with flash.

http://www.itl.co.uk/HomePages/PaulReynolds/micro8.htm#80C51

Here are some interesting books:

http://home.korax.net/~telic/bn/embedded.htm#MCS51

Here is the (small at the moment) 8051 web ring::

http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=80x51;list

Here is an EDN article which provides an overview of the latest and greatest, a substantial discussion of Flash, along with a veritable railroad switchyard of links:

http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/1999/102899/22df1.htm

The thing I liked best about this article is the sales figures $4.8 billion this year for 8-bitters versus $3.6 billion for 16 bitters and 452 million for 32 bits. I would not have guessed anywhere near the correct $ ratio.

Partial Non-sequitor. Here is another chip, TCP/IP Stack in Silicon:

http://www.seiko-usa-ecd.com/intcir/html/whatsnew/s7600a.html

And now for something completely different. I was talking about the USS Adml. Grace Hopper (DDG70) last month.

http://www.hopper.navy.mil/index.htm

Completely off the track:

Here is another ship which might interest you. They are building a replica of Amistad at Mystic Seaport, CT:

http://www.amistadamerica.org/construction/welcome.html

http://www.mysticseaport.org/public/amistad/amistad.at.mystic.seaport.html

The keel laying ceremony for Amistad II was in March, 1988 and they expect to commision her June 2000.