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You just have to love the Propeller. Eight fast cogs, and shared memory - albeit too little for some apps - packaged in a nice, easy to use 40 pin dip.

I know that I’ve not been posting for quite a while, however I am working a lot more with the Propeller and some other interesting devices now, and I will talk about my projects here.

First up will be a nice SPI Flash device, the W25X80 from Winbond. It is a perfect way to store fairly large ammounts of information for the Propeller. It is very easy to interface to - it requires very little Spin code to control it, and if the application requires it, assembly language code can talk to it at 4mbps or even higher speeds.

Later there will be a large model macro assembler for the propeller - now that will be a lot of fun once I finish it, and its not that far off. I will finally be able to write LMM programs without attempting to tear my hair out - the Spin environment is just not suitable for LMM work.

I can’t believe its been over two years since I’ve written anything significant here - however the last two years have been hectic - between consulting gigs, finding my better half and getting married, I guess I should not be surprised. Fortunately I’ve finished  a large project, and now intend to devote a lot of time to the Propeller.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm and is filed under Propeller.