I'm a beginer interested in uC's, is a cygnal chip a good choice?

From: Reg (reg_at_mindless.com)
Date: 12/26/03 

Date: 26 Dec 2003 12:09:39 -0800

Im a real begineer to microcontrollers and i have a project that I
want to get off the ground. The project is basically to design a USB
based ADC card.

I have been looking around, and I have found a uC on the market from
Cygnal (now Silicon Labs) that has a 17ch 10bit ADC and a USB
controller in one package.

The question I have is this: Is a Cygnal 8051 based chip (i have been
looking at a C8051F320) a good choice to start from. Is there
anything really nonstandard about this chip that I should know?

If you think there would be a better chip on the market that could do
what I need please let me know :)
 Basically i have figured out i need the following

-USB controller
-a minimum of 8ch 10bit ADC (with a sampling rate of 50s/sec per ch)
-easy development

Cheers guys

Reg Orton

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