#1.1) Who put this FAQ together? (LS*)

Based on the pre-work of the authors of

	Microcontroller-FAQ/Primer,
	68HC11-FAQ,
	8051-FAQ        Russ Hersch (sibit@datasrv.co.il),
	COP8-FAQ        Robin Getz  (rgetz@esd.nsc.com),
	PIC-FAQ         Tom Kellett (tom@takdsign.demon.co.uk)

this proposal ST6-FAQ was initiated by

	Emilio Caggiano    (caggiano@vm.csata.it)       (*EC*),
	Jerry van Kampen                                (*JvK*),
	Leonhard Schneider (lskade@hotmail.com)         (*LS*).

We decided to take the format and whatever was reasonable to be taken from the for-runner FAQS (with permission of the authors). The unique "#" character in front of the chapter numbers we put there to ease forward/backward skipping using search commands.

To link an HTML version of this FAQ to his "ChipDir" was an idea of

	Jaap van Ganswijk     (ganswijk@xs4all.nl)           (*JvG*).

Another HTML version of ST6-FAQ is kept by

	Filip Gieszczykiewicz (filip@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu) (*FG*).

#1.2) How can I contribute to this FAQ? (LS%)

If you have any suggestions or additions, or you would like to correct any of the information contained herein, please eMail a note, depending on subject, to *one* of the "co-maintainers" (see status column in "Table of Contents"):

	Emilio Caggiano    (caggiano@vm.csata.it)       (*EC*)
	Jerry van Kampen                                (*JvK*)
	Leonhard Schneider (lskade@hotmail.com)         (*LS*)

For the ease of FAQ maintaining we ask supporters to provide their contributions in a format that matches the format of this FAQ.

Please precede your article by

	a copy of the adequate topic line,
	a subject line describing the contents of your article in brief,

and append

	a line with your name and eMail-address.

Articles offered to the maintainers of this ST6-FAQ must be free to be published on The Net.

If you give names of ftp/html-sites, please use URL conventions (rfc1630), even if WE didn't do it by accident (but please point to our mistakes).

We certainly hope that those of you who know of interesting items for the ST6 will share with everyone by contributing to this project.

If you are a manufacturer and have an anonymous ftp site available that supports the ST6, please let us know by Email so that we can add it to this FAQ.

#1.3) What Newsgroups will this FAQ be posted to? (LS%)

This FAQ will NOT be cross-posted to newsgroups anymore, because

• there are several sites now archiving the ST6FAQ in US-America, Australia, and Europe;
• the FAQ grew up to 100k in size and we assume too few people are interested in ST6 subject, not justifying the effort to periodically cross-post a FAQ of this size to several newsgroups;
• the advances of this FAQ are mostly marginal.

If there are updates of the ST6FAQ, a short announcement/reminder will be cross-posted to the following newsgroups:

Daniel Pfarrer generously and non-bureautcratically gave an USAmerican home to ST6FAQ; you may obtain the latest issue

We are putting no restrictions on the use of this FAQ except - It must be distributed in its entirely with the copyright notice, and no financial gain may be realized from it. After all, we have spent, and continue to spend, a lot of time on this, and the only thing that we intend to gain from it is more information on the ST6, and getting to know fellow ST6 groupies better.

REMEMBER ! If you choose to upload this FAQ to any BBS or ftp site, then *YOU* are responsible for updating it regularly.

#1.6) Other FAQS of possible Interest (LS*)

Other Microcontroller FAQs

     Subject:    Microcontroller primer and FAQ
     Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
		 comp.realtime
		 comp.robotics
		 sci.electronics
		 alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
     Archive:    rtfm.mit.edu :  
		 /pub/usenet/comp.answers/microcontroller-faq/primer
		 /pub/usenet/sci.answers/microcontroller-faq/primer
		 /pub/usenet/news.answers/microcontroller-faq/primer
     Maintainer: Russ Hersch
		 Email:  sibit@datasrv.co.il

     Subject:    68hc11 microcontrollers
     Newsgroups: comp.realtime
		 comp.robotics
		 sci.electronics
     Archive:    rtfm.mit.edu :  
		 /pub/usenet/comp.answers/microcontroller-faq/68hc11
		 /pub/usenet/sci.answers/microcontroller-faq/68hc11
		 /pub/usenet/news.answers/microcontroller-faq/68hc11
     Maintainer: Russ Hersch
		 Email:  sibit@datasrv.co.il

     Subject:    8051 microcontrollers
     Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
		 comp.realtime
		 comp.robotics
		 comp.lang.forth
		 sci.electronics
     Archive:    rtfm.mit.edu :  
		 /pub/usenet/comp.answers/microcontroller-faq/8051
		 /pub/usenet/sci.answers/microcontroller-faq/8051
		 /pub/usenet/news.answers/microcontroller-faq/8051
     Maintainer: Russ Hersch
		 Email:  sibit@datasrv.co.il

     Subject:    COP8 microcontrollers
     Newsgroups: comp.realtime
		 comp.robotics
		 sci.electronics
		 comp.arch.embedded
     Maintainer: Robin Getz
		 rgetz@esd.nsc.com
		 rgetz@lcc1.nsc.com

     Subject:    PIC microcontrollers
     Newsgroups: comp.realtime
		 comp.robotics
		 sci.electronics
     Maintainer: Tom Kellett
		 Tom@takdsign.demon.co.uk

Additional FAQs of interest

     Subject:    Robotics
     Newsgroups: comp.robotics
     Maintainer: Kevin Dowling
		 Email:  nivek@ri.cmu.edu

     Subject:    Electronics
     Newsgroups: sci.electronics
     Maintainer: Filip Gieszczykiewicz
		 Email:  filip@smi.med.pitt.edu

     Subject:    Real-time
     Newsgroups: comp.realtime, comp.answers, news.answers
     Archive:    rtfm.mit.edu : pub/usenet/comp.realtime
     Maintainer: Mark Linimon
		 Email:  linimon@nominil.lonesome.com

     Subject:    Neural Networks
     Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.answers,news.answers
     Archive:    rtfm.mit.edu : pub/usenet/neural-net-faq
     URL:        http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/FAQ/neural-net-faq.html
     Maintainer: Lutz Prechelt
		 Email:  prechelt@ira.uka.de

     Subject:    Fuzzy Logic
     Newsgroups: comp.ai.fuzzy,comp.answers,news.answers
     Archive:    rtfm.mit.edu : pub/usenet/fuzzy-logic/
     URL:        http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs
		 /ai/fuzzy/part1/faq.html (should be one line)
     Maintainer: Mark Kantrowitz
		 Email:  mkant+@cs.cmu.edu

For more information on various microcontrollers and their features, refer to the Microcontroller primer and FAQ listed above. URL:

    ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.answers/microcontroller-faq/primer

If anyone wishes to start a FAQ on another microcontroller, please feel free to copy the format of this FAQ (we did to some degree). With a common/similar format, we will all benefit when trying to find information on a particular microcontroller. If anyone has any comments on the format itself, we are open for suggestions.

• .. in English:

  	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/news.answers/faqs/about-faqs
  	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/news.answers/faqs/mininmal-digest-format
  	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/news.answers/news-answers/introduction
  	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/news.answers/news-answers/guidelines
  	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/news.answers/usenet/writing-style/part1
  	ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/educatin/capskil2.zip
  	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-groups/comp.answers/law/Copyright-FAQ
  

  (try at the nearest/local mirror first)
• .. in German:

  	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/de-answers/richtlinien
  

  .. also:

  	de.newusers/headerzeilen
  

	ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ncsapubs/WWW/HTMLPrimer.ps.Z

#1.9) DOs and DO-NOTs

If you have any QUESTIONS concerning ST6xxx and/or this FAQ,please

• DO NOT ask the maintainer(s) of this FAQ,
• DO read this FAQ in its entirety,
• DO use the other sources of information given here
  or somewhere else,
• DO post your question(s) to the approriate USENET NewsGroup,
• DO ask one of the "experts"
  mentioned in chapter "Help available" of this FAQ,
• DO collect and summarize the answers you receive,
  if you think they are of general interest,
• DO nicely edit the summary and send it to the maintainer
  pointed to in Table-of-Contents/overview's status column,

in that order.

If you have any SUGGESTIONS/CORRECTIONS/CONTRIBUTIONS for this FAQ

• DO have a look at the T-o-C/overview and find out
  which of the co-maintainers would most likely care for your idea,
• DO eMail to her/him and tell in ADVANCE about your arcticle
  to prevent double work.