Lpc2000

Hi Bill (Wiese),

> You do have to know that the LPC21xx parts are intended as low-cost
> microcontrollers - that is, 32-bit successors to 8051-like devices.
> They're not positioned as ARM "system chips" like other ARM devices.
> In the grand scheme of things the ARM CPU core itself prob doesn't take
> much more die space than an 8051 core. The flash (charge pumps) and RAM
> will take more area, so the ARM core is a cheap way of selling more
> silicon ;)

I read your post with great interest, and as you can tell I'm quite new to
ARM.
It seems sign of the times is that we can expect single chip RF ICs with MCU
on-board to run ARM rather than the 8051 sooner than later, so I really need
to get in on the game :-)

I found thsi interesting article here :
http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/history.html

I had no idea ARM came from Acorn ?
I really liked this bit (excerpt) :
"So when, in the early '90s, Apple announced the world's first RISC desktop
machine, we laughed.
And Acorn ran a good-humoured advert in the Times welcoming Apple to RISC."

Rather intrueguing.

-- Kris