??? 11/10/09 17:35 Read: times |
#170649 - not just the future Responding to: ???'s previous message |
the future will go to "multi-microcontrolling", where a set of individual microcontrollers are used to solve a complex problem. Not only to increase speed and power, but also to increase redundance and to make the system more immune to failures. Think of the multi-microcontroller arrays used in some todays utility vehicles or the 5 on-board computers of the space shuttle.
not just the future, somwhere around 1996 I made a rotary knitting machine pattern controller with 51 (coincidence, bstter expressed as 48 + 3) '51s in it. Recently I had a project with 5 to 10 controllers (most were '51s) (configuration dependent) and my current has 2 (a '51 and another) Erik |