<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The mega408 is designed as part of a battery subsystem. <div>I had never seen a mega without a uart either.<div><br></div><div>How did you wind up starting with that chip as an introduction?</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:25 AM, John Luciani wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM, dave madden <<a href="mailto:dorkbot@mersenne.com">dorkbot@mersenne.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I gotta say, NXP and Luminary make it really easy for guys like me to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">get started. Atmel & Microchip are at the other end of the spectrum,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">even if, ultimately, their chips might be better-suited for an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">application.<br></blockquote><br>I agree with you about Atmel (I have not looked at Microchip).<br>TI and Freescale (was Motorola) do a much better job at<br>documenting and presenting their devices.<br><br>Atmel has done an excellent job of building a community of users.<br><br>(* jcl *)<br><br>-- <br><br>You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools.<br><a href="http://www.wiblocks.com">http://www.wiblocks.com</a><br><a href="http://www.luciani.org">http://www.luciani.org</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org<br>http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>