Jameco Electronics Rabbit 3000 - Manual (Page 15)

6 Rabbit 3000 Microprocessor
1.2 Summary of Rabbit 3000 Advantages
• The glueless architecture makes it is easy to design the hardware system.
• There are a lot of serial ports and they can communicate very fast.
• Precision pulse and edge generation is a standard feature.
• EMI is at extremely low levels.
• Interrupts can have multiple priorities.
• Processor speed and power consumption are under program control.
• The ultra low power mode can perform computations and execute logical tests since the
processor continues to execute, albeit at 32 kHz or even as slow as 2 kHz.
• The Rabbit may be used to create an intelligent peripheral or a slave processor. For
example, protocol stacks can be off loaded to a Rabbit slave. The master can be any
processor.
• The Rabbit can be cold-booted so unprogrammed flash memory can be soldered in
place.
• You can write serious software, be it 1,000 or 50,000 lines of C code. The tools are
there and they are low in cost.
• If you know the Z80 or Z180, you know most of the Rabbit.
• A simple 10-pin programming interface replaces in-circuit emulators and PROM pro-
grammers.
• The battery-backable time/date clock is included.
• The standard Rabbit chip is made to industrial temperature and voltage specifications.
• The Rabbit 3000 is backed by extensive software development tools and libraries, espe-
cially in the area of networking and embedded Internet.