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Subject: 
nxt controller specification
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Date: 
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:31:47 GMT
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Hi, I wonder if anyone may be familiar with the spec about the nxt brick:



I found this on the ww.hobbyengineering.com

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NXT Brick

* 32-bit ARM7 microcontroller
* 256 Kbytes FLASH, 64 Kbytes RAM
* 8-bit AVR microcontroller
* 4 Kbytes FLASH, 512 Byte RAM

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There are 2 controllers onboard?



"256K flash, 64K RAM" seems to be a lot more than what I have experienced.
The brick can fill up really quickly, even I have kept sound files very very
small.



What is the 8bit AVR microcontroller for?



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(...) Yes. The AVR is responsible for a number of things, including PWM and encoder reading on the motor ports (IMS), the reading of the front panel button state, power management, and A/D from the input lines for analog sensors. It is not (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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