[hpsdr] Parallax Propeller

KD5NWA kd5nwa at cox.net
Thu Jun 1 14:07:15 PDT 2006


Interesting part, definitely not your standard embedded CPU chip. I 
like the built in video generating feature.

At 02:21 PM 6/1/2006, H. Gruchow wrote:
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>Hi group,
>
>once again I would like to draw your attention towards this outstanding chip.
>
>http://www.parallax.com/propeller/
>
>Eight 32bit processors are working in this chip and some kind of 
>internal rotary switch is
>sequentially connecting them to the bus with a max speed of up to 60 
>MHz. The processors
>themselves can run up to 128 MHz.
>
>You can get instant video or audio output plus usb connection plus 
>plus plus with only a
>few external resistors. It has 32 K ROM plus 32 K RAM.
>The best thing is the free development environment which is really 
>simple to use (even I
>could almost immediately understand it). And it already has some 
>basic applications
>programmed like e.g. frequency synthesis (might be interesting for us).
>
>Price: 25 US$; delivery starting midth of June.
>I have ordered 2 of them.
>
>73
>Horst
>DL6KBF
>
>
>
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