Looking at Cygnal 8051 micro. Is it easy to get started with?

Hi,

I have been looking at the Cygnal 8051 (C8051F000). It has 8 Adc, 2 dac, 5
PWM modules plus it has 32k flash ram.
It all looks good to me :)

To get started with the C8051F000 I was thinking of using the C8051F000DK
development kit.

http://www.silabs.com/products/microcontroller/C8051F000DK.asp

Now the questions:
    Is it easy to get started with the C8051F000DK development kit?
    Can a noob  setup the blinky program in 10 min?        (I have been
using keil development programs before)
    Does it have good example programs, (like blinky)?
   Anyone know where to download example programs?

Hope someone can help me out.

"Morten" <2583060m001@mail1.stofanet.dk> wrote in
news:40290ea0$0$17602$ba624c82@nntp05.dk.telia.net: 

> I have been looking at the Cygnal 8051 (C8051F000). It has 8 Adc, 2 dac,
> 5 PWM modules plus it has 32k flash ram.
> It all looks good to me :)

You will like the JTAG programming and debugging. I wish all micros had
this. 

> To get started with the C8051F000 I was thinking of using the
> C8051F000DK development kit.

Good choice.

>     Is it easy to get started with the C8051F000DK development kit?

Yes.

>     Can a noob  setup the blinky program in 10 min?        (I have been
> using keil development programs before)

I don't know about 10 minutes but it shouldn't take too long.

>     Does it have good example programs, (like blinky)?
>    Anyone know where to download example programs?

I believe it does have some such demo.

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- Mark ->
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:58:34 +0100, Morten wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking at the Cygnal 8051 (C8051F000). It has 8 Adc, 2 dac, 5
> PWM modules plus it has 32k flash ram.
> It all looks good to me :)
> 
> To get started with the C8051F000 I was thinking of using the C8051F000DK
> development kit.
> 
> http://www.silabs.com/products/microcontroller/C8051F000DK.asp
> 
> Now the questions:
>     Is it easy to get started with the C8051F000DK development kit?
>     Can a noob  setup the blinky program in 10 min?        (I have been
> using keil development programs before)
>     Does it have good example programs, (like blinky)?
>    Anyone know where to download example programs?
> 
> Hope someone can help me out.

Check out www.cygnal.com applications area, there are lots of examples.
Blinky comes with the development board/kit.

Bob

Thanks for helping out :)



"Morten" <2583060m001@mail1.stofanet.dk> skrev i en meddelelse
news:40290ea0$0$17602$ba624c82@nntp05.dk.telia.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have been looking at the Cygnal 8051 (C8051F000). It has 8 Adc, 2 dac, 5
> PWM modules plus it has 32k flash ram.
> It all looks good to me :)
>
> To get started with the C8051F000 I was thinking of using the C8051F000DK
> development kit.
>
> http://www.silabs.com/products/microcontroller/C8051F000DK.asp
>
> Now the questions:
>     Is it easy to get started with the C8051F000DK development kit?
>     Can a noob  setup the blinky program in 10 min?        (I have been
> using keil development programs before)
>     Does it have good example programs, (like blinky)?
>    Anyone know where to download example programs?
>
> Hope someone can help me out.
>
>