OCTOBER 1999 - TORONTO, CANADA.  Technological Arts has launched the first product of a new family, dubbed MicroStamp11.  Billed as the world's smallest commercially available 68HC11 microcontroller module, MicroStamp11 brings the power and flexibility of Motorola's 68HC11-- one of the most widely used 8-bit microcontroller chips-- to a whole new range of applications.
 Utilizing a 68HC11(E)D0 operating in expanded mode, MicroStamp11 offers a rich set of hardware features including three Input Captures, four Output Compares, Pulse Accumulator, Real-time Interrupt, Serial Communications Interface (SCI), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) watchdog timer, 25 programmable interrupts, and up to 512 bytes of RAM.  Boasting 14 multi-purpose programmable input/output lines and two hardware interrupts pins, MicroStamp11 is particularly well-equipped for multi-tasking in real-time control and monitoring applications.
 Measuring only 1.0 by 1.4 inches, Microstamp11 is available with a choice of 8K or 32K of in-circuit programmable EEPROM, and comes complete with on-board 5-Volt regulator and low-voltage inhibit reset circuit.
 Thanks to the 68HC11's well-engineered architecture and instruction set, MicroStamp11 can easily be programmed in all of the popular embedded control languages, including assembler, C, BASIC, and Forth.  Compatibility with a wide selection of existing development tools in the relatively mature 68HC11 market gives the user virtully unlimited flexibility when it comes to choosing a development platform and operating system to work with.
 With a single-piece price of only US$34 (with 8K EEPROM), and US$45 (with 32K EEPROM), MicroStamp11 is ideal for a broad spectrum of applications requiring a compact low-cost 68HC11 core.
 Loading code into MicroStamp11's EEPROM is made easy thanks to a low-cost Docking Module, which provides a reset button, indicator lights, and an RS232 interface, to take advantage of the 68HC11's Special Bootstrap Mode.
 Technological Arts offers a Starter Package, which includes one MicroStamp11 module, Docking Module, serial cable, documentation, and a disk of DOS utilities and sample code.  A Starter Package for the 8K MicroStamp11 (MS11SP8K) is available for US$49, while a 32K version (MS11SP32K) is available for US$60.
 More details on MicroStamp11 and related products can be found at www.technologicalarts.com.
 Technnological Arts is a Toronto-based company which has been producing low-cost, high-quality modular hardware for the 68HC11/68HC12 community since 1994.

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