Propeller microcontroller in a 40-pin DIL package.

Suitable for breadboard, stripboard and PCB projects.

The Propeller is Parallax's own all-custom silicon, designed at the transistor level, microcontroller. The Propeller is a multi-processing chip, with shared memory and a built-in interpreter for programming in a high-level object-oriented language, called Spin™, and low-level (assembly) language.

With the set of pre-built software objects for video, mice, keyboards, NTSC/VGA displays, LCDs, stepper motors, sensors and more your application is a matter of high-level integration with Propeller chips.

The Propeller chips are designed for high-speed embedded processing, while maintaining low power, low current consumption and a small physical footprint.The P8X32A-D40 is most useful for prototyping in its 40-pin DIP package.

Connecting the Propeller module to your computer's serial or USB port using a Prop Plug for programming is quite simple. The Propeller chip can run on its own with a power supply, internal clock and using RAM for code storage. Add an external EEPROM for non-volatile code storage.

 

Features of the Propeller:

• 8 processors (cogs)
• 32 I/O Pins
• Current source/sink per I/O = 50 mA
• System clock speed = DC to 80 MHz
• 3.3 volts DC Supply
• Use external crystal or Internal oscillator
• Global RAM/ROM = 64 K bytes; 32 K RAM / 32 K ROM
• Cog RAM = 512 x 32 bits each
• much, much more!