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@requiem a similar urge to make my own projects more difficult led me to the 8051 as a replacement for anything with an AVR in it
@requiem It's a 40+ year old core that's still in production by at least a dozen companies in configurations ranging from completely barebones to fully-kitted-out with ADC/DAC/SPI/I2C/etc. It's been around so long, and is so ubiquitous, that there are very good free FPGA IP blocks if you want to incorporate it into something more complex.
@requiem As far as I know, SDCC (https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/) is the only FOSS C compiler for 8051. Every week or so, someone professes a desire to port gcc, but so far I don't think anyone has actually made any progress. I kind of feel like if you just "size up" your uC, you don't have to worry about generating super efficient code ;)