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Re: Re[2]: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:01:51 GMT
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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.

I think it is silk-screened with LEGO logo because it contains a rom masked with
firmware downloader.

Philo



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(...) Yes, I suspect the same. The ROM mask *is* the custom part of the chip that LEGO can easily define without big expenditures. I noticed that the atmel chip also has a boot ROM that is separate from the flash. If they use that chip we might (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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Hello 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. (19 years ago, 15-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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