For you engineers, Zilog Z8 Encore development kit $49.95!

[blahblah99]

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I just got mine today and am playing with it at this moment. The board comes with all peripherals to develop your own applications. Very well worth the $49.95!


Please do not just buy it cause its cheap! Zilog is already losing money on this kit as parts alone already costs over $50! Only get it if you know what you are doing! Thank you.

 

[rockyct]

Is this like a Basic Stamp? I'm interested in getting into microcontrolers, so do you think this would be a good way to get started?

 

[DurocShark]

Cheap mods that give u free hp:

1) electric supercharger on ebay
2) advance timing kit on ebay
2) tornado fuel saver
3) the full engine additive like zmax
4) and lots and lots of sticker. they give 1 hp each.

Muhahahahahaha...

Seriously, I wonder how similar the Z8 opcodes are to the Z80? Might be worth getting my hand back in to have a real dev kit to play with...

 

[blahblah99]

If your new to microcontroller I would not recommend starting with this kit. Start with the basic stamp and learn the basics of mcu's. I was looking around for a powerful enough microcontroller kit that comes with a C compiler and can be had under $100 when I stumbled across this deal in one of the electronic design magazines. $50 is a STEAL!

 

[kyu614]

Hi, i was wondering if it comes with one of the chips listed in the matrix at the bottom of the page. if so, which one does it come with? if not, where can i find prices for the MCUs?

thanks

 

[Lockelar]

Seems like my motorola hc12 microcontrollers have more ports. I'll have to get 'em back and count to be sure. Are all microcontrollers programmed in asm and then each have some brand specific subroutines preprogrammed?

 

[PandaBear]

No, most up to date microcontroller have C compiler at least and many have supporting real time operating system you can buy to use. Some even have reference design for specific application (ie. ABS in your car, refrigerator motor controller, Voice over IP, router, etc).

So it is a matter of what feature you want, how much you want to pay, and what performance you need. Other than that they are very similar.

 

[wlau]

Is this similar to the Rabbit? like an embedded processor development kit? 49.95 is pretty cheap

 

[Analog]

good deal.

 

[GermyBoy]

The HC12S is better than the HC12, they rereleased it not long ago.


Will do anything you want it to really. I use one for simple data acquisition. Don't need to waste time programming the parallel port anymore.

 

[lungster]

May get one; thanks !

 

[blahblah99]

The development kit comes with the 6403F mcu, with 64KB flash memory, 4kb RAM, 12-ch 10bit a/d, two full-duplex uarts, i2c interface, spi interface, two irda encoder/decoders, four 16-bit timers with pwm capability, wdt timer, 3-ch dma, up to 60 i/o pins, 24 interrupts. Other peripherals on the board are an rs485 port, a built in modem with a phone line jack, four pushbutton switches, and 4 leds each with an array of 7x5 dots.

Well, after playing around with this mcu for a while, I'm starting to LOVE IT! It sure beats the crap out of microchip's mcu's.

Rabbit is pretty good too, but they are even more expensive than microchip.

 

[Ruined]

lockelar,
Do a little looking agound and you should be able to find other compliers, I have the hc11's and so far i have found a basic and a c complier. Pretty much any MCU will have some library of subroutines, you should be able to find them on the disk that came with your hc12. If you can't find anything there look on the website of the manufacturer of your development board.

hope this helps