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Posted by Thomas A. Frank.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #121, The Islanders/Rhode Warrior, from Middletown (RI) High School and Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

Posted on 9/17/99 3:10 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Or how about this.... posted by Jerry Eckert on 9/17/99 9:48 AM MST:



Hello All;

From my reading of the spec sheet, it looks like we can have 8, 2K programs
in the chip (Program 0 is the master, and is the one that gets executed on
powerup). We can jump from program to program (gotta love goto's, or in
this case 'run x'), and variables can transfer between them in the 63 bytes
of common scratch pad RAM. All outputs are maintained during jumps.

This is very cool. Assuming the time it takes to jump from program to program
is not unreasonable (haven't gotten mine yet to try it and see), I envision
Program 0 being the main, with 1-7 being subroutines as needed.

Of course, having 2.5x faster execution will be very nice.

Looks like it will still be limited to 26 bytes for variables, but then you
get the 63 bytes of scratchpad for constants and such.

I like it.

Only about 3.5 months until kickoff...

TAF