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 Posted: Sep 17, 2007 - 03:52 PM |
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Any one know much about the AVR XMEGA chips, I have just had someone arrange to come and see me next week to show me them. It would be nice to have some background so i know what he is talking about.
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Posted: Sep 17, 2007 - 03:55 PM |
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Searching the Forums for "xmega" should uncover all that common people know about them.
It is encouraging just to hear that they may, in fact, be real. Report back as much as you will be allowed to say.
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Posted: Sep 17, 2007 - 03:58 PM |
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| I will do its a distributer that is coming to see me they have just been to a seminar and think i will be intrested. |
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Posted: Sep 18, 2007 - 06:21 PM |
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I checked the Atmel website and found NOTHING about XMega. I used the parametric search on the 8-bit RISC processors and got nothing faster than 20MHz, so apparently the XMega devices are not there. None of the other microcontrollers seemed applicable either.
Where on the Atmel website might we find something about the XMega chips?
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Posted: Sep 18, 2007 - 06:28 PM |
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But that's the point - so far all anyone has heard are "whispers in the wind".
This thread (like several before it) provides a place to pool the rumours. |
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Posted: Sep 18, 2007 - 08:29 PM |
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so you are going to talk to someone, who claims to have seen one?!? get yourself a camcorder and record that event! it's historical  We too want to see/hear/read about that!!! |
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Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 01:10 AM |
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I saw a whole spool of them being carried by Elvis into his UFO, but he took off before I could ask any questions.
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Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 01:24 AM |
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bloody-orc wrote:
so you are going to talk to someone, who claims to have seen one?!? get yourself a camcorder and record that event! it's historical We too want to see/hear/read about that!!!
goujam wrote:
I have just had someone arrange to come and see me next week to show me them.
To me, goujam's statement implies that the Atmel rep. will have some XMega's "In Hand... " |
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Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 02:49 AM |
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smileymicros wrote:
I saw a whole spool of them being carried by Elvis into his UFO, but he took off before I could ask any questions.
Smiley
It's at times like these; I wish the future you had not destroyed your time machine as you could have easily fixed this in so many ways! 
Like going back to the future and returning with free samples of AVR's from 2010, 2020 or at least antique XMEGA's!!!
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Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 09:14 AM |
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| I dont think he will have samples, he just wants to talk to me about them. I hope he will have some literature, he seem quite impressed by them so we shall see. |
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Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 09:38 PM |
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I asked my distributor (http://www.spoerle.de) today about the availability of the XMega AVRs because they already have mentioned them in their online product listing. The sales guy replied, that they will hit the market at the first quarter of 2008 (March) - samples maybe a little bit earlier. I also asked him for further details about the new family and he said, that he will try to get some further infos. I will keep you informed.
So far, they are listing 10 different versions with the pin count, Flash-, eeprom- and SRAM- size but no further info. The biggest one comes with 256 KB Flash, 16K SRAM and 2Keeprom.
By the way - that was my first posting at the AVR freaks forum. I started my first little Atmel project two or three weeks ago and enjoy this forum a lot. Greetings to everyone... |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 09:16 AM |
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Welcome Elektro_Lurch, I am fairly new here as well i started AVR's 6 months ago.
It looks like your distributor Spoerle is part of the same company who are coming to see me Arrow Electronics. |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 11:34 AM |
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| Yep - Spoerle is an Arrow company. |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 12:26 PM |
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Found There :
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Title: AVR Xmega Redefines the 8-bit World
Details: Atmel is presenting the new 8-bit ‘XMEGA‘ device able to perform 32 MIPS @ 32 MHz with an outstanding analogue capability; this device will be code-compatible with the existing MEGA & TINY on which we will give you an update, followed by a presentation on the ATMEL Zlink solution, a 2.4 GHz radio bundled with the AVR of your choice.
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 09:59 PM |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 10:05 PM |
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Thanks Michael and lpapad!!!
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 10:14 PM |
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Wow, that one big corporate soap-opera going on in 'New_Atmel.pdf'. Perhaps something not meant for our eyes?
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 10:24 PM |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 10:28 PM |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2007 - 11:06 PM |
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You can also find datasheets for the XMEGA TM A family here:
One word: Wow.
It looks like configuration of all the pin options will be quite a bit like starting up a SAM7S or similar.
A disappointment for us Mega48/88 fans: the small size has no analog.
I'm guessing this all won't be given away. It will be very interesting to get ballpark figures for the X vs. "comparable" Mega.
One surprise: No multiply-accumulate.
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