Re: [avr-chat] the evil 8051

[eweddington]

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From: Steve Franks <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:19 am
Subject: [avr-chat] the evil 8051

> Hey all,
> 
> Seeing as anyone who makes a new application specific chunk of 
> hardware(read: Zigbee) and doesn't know squat about micros always 
> picks an 8051 (is
> there some asic mfr out there selling 8051 cores on the cheap?):

Hmm. What are you doing with Zigbee and 8051? Are you getting a
particular module from someone?
What kind of application, commercial?

> 
> Anyone heard murmurings about a Win8051(Gcc) project?  SDCC is 
> nice, but C++
> (most esp. template classes for HAL) definitely now have their 
> place in
> embedded systems.  Besides which, I like the standardization of gcc.
> Single-supplier tools (open-source or commercial for that matter) 
> give me
> the 'willies'.

AFAIK, no one is writing an 8051 port for GCC. A while back I heard of a
nascent port for the PIC, but it certainly wasn't ready to be used. Your
best bet for free tools will probably be SDCC if it's going to be 8051.
I certainly wouldn't mind an 8051 port of GCC (as Atmel sells 8051
processors too).

HTH
Eric Weddington