[Coco] re:Radio Shack STAMP Developer's Kit

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Sun Mar 26 00:19:31 EST 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <KnudsenMJ at aol.com>

> If they can generate tones, they must be pretty quick, or have special
> hardware.  A question is whether they tie up CPU cycles in bit-banging 
> serial I/O,
> or have UART sections that do it "for free", like an RS232 Pak on a  Coco.
> And how many such UARTs running at 32 KB could a PIC attend  to?

You should check out the PIC site http://www.parallax.com/ for info. They 
have controllers that do various serial protocols - and some that do USB!

Neil






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