Lpc2000

> > This thread is starting to annoy me (and maybe others too)
> Not me. All those questions and answers are very important to me.

They are important to me too, but I don't see the point of that series of postings

a la " The OKI does this and that so much better than your Philips, and the Atmel

does this like that".

Why is one on a Philips LPC2000 forum then ?

THAT'S the part that annoyed me.

If MCU XYZ doesn't do what I want, or I can't use it, I won't be frequenting a forum

about it, and regularly posting, "yeah, but the LPC2000 is much cheaper, and it's got more RAM,

and the pin count is much lower, its current is much lower than XYZ etc etc"

What's the point of that ??????

I hope that better explains my post.

I appreciate some of the postings that redsp makes/made, but I wished he'd

just give it a bone on the lack of current figures in datasheet.

Redsp's altruistic claim that it is to "help others" is not very convincing.

Do you regularly post on like 20 other MCU forums about current issues there ?

Didn't think so - that's my point - if you, respectfully, "get the point".

Anyway, let's leave it there, I'm entitled to my opinion too, and that was just mine.

> > Look, if you're not happy about it, and you won't use the Philips
> > parts anyway,
> Hehehem, what kind of reply is that? If you do this to one customer,
> you'll run out of bussines very soon.

As above, this is irrelevant.

> Not true. I am very interested in LPC parts, their power consumption
> and package size. I was asking those questions (and lot of others) at
> the local seminar about LPC family. Unoftunately I didnt' get
> answers.

So am I, but I measured them instead of constantly bleating about it.

How can a datasheet possibly cover all permutations of a user's config ?

that's riiculous.

> That works for hobby projects. Can you imagine the company evaluating
> various boards, measuring characteristics etc. instead of making money
> with final product? I can't.

So what do you do ?

Look at the datasheet, and design a full-on application PCB from that ?

Of course not, that's just silly - We all do a prototype - and if someone can't be bothered

to spend 15 minutes doing their current tests, then that's just plain lazy IMHO.

-- Kris