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Re[2]: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:15:03 GMT
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Allen Foster <ALLEN.FOSTER@saynotospamNTLWORLD.COM>
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Hello Trevyn,
Sunday, January 15, 2006, 3:23:36 PM, you wrote:
> Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > 2. People still talking about LEGO making custom chips. I work for a company
> > that designs, simulates, test and sell processor chips. The fabrication costs
> > are dramatic. It costs millions for the first draft, and hundreds of thousands
> > for any remakes just for fab. Now we use cutting edge fabrication so our costs
> > are higher, but it is no trivial thing to make your own custom chip. LEGO is
> > not a chip company, and does not have the right employee skills to take on
> > designing their own chip.
> The RCX contains a chip that says (c)LEGO, upper right in this picture:
> http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/bot.jpg
> What did Lego have to do with the creation of this chip? Does anyone
> know what kind of chip this is? (I can't read the numbers on it)
> Trevyn
That's the Hitachi H-8 Microcontroller. It is merely
silk-screened with
the Lego logo, they had nothing at all to do with
it's development.
--
Best regards,
Allen mailto:kaptain.korolev@gmail.com
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