TI is still pumping out Zigbee boards based on it. I had to dig through documentation and tick a box saying I wasn't going to make missiles just to figure out what I needed to program it.
I'm kinda curious about 8051 chips. They're absolutely everywhere, although maybe now the Espressif chips are taking over.
I like the amount of support that ESP gets but would personally never use it because I told trust Chinese networking chips.
The 8051 makes absolutely no sense to anyone - except when you consider the extreme low cost.
In the example of the SiLabs parts, they took the modern peripherals from their ARM chips and plopped them down to a 8051 core. Some times that will work great, but if you are doing any “real work” (preocessing) on chip just go with ARM. But, he, sometimes you need to toggle some LEDs and write something out over SPI.
TI is still pumping out Zigbee boards based on it. I had to dig through documentation and tick a box saying I wasn't going to make missiles just to figure out what I needed to program it.
I'm kinda curious about 8051 chips. They're absolutely everywhere, although maybe now the Espressif chips are taking over.