Lpc2000

Every new annoucement seems to strengthen the often-made prediction that ARM 
is going to be the 8051 of the 2000's. It is interesting to note that every 
major micro vendor (except Renesas/Hitachi and AMD) publicly acknowledge ARM 
licensing. Of course Hitachi and AMD might have some secret licensing deal 
like Motorola is rumoured to have had for some years.

Personally, I'm waiting for a rash of USB clients....

I hope too for devices with faster GPIO blocks. It really  **sucks** that a 
60/70Mhz core can only modulate GPIO pins a 6MHz.

As more and more devices start using ARM and m iore and more programmers 
start to use ARM it is going to be harder to justify proprietary 
architectures like AVR and H8. The "value added differentiation" is going to 
come from other quarters like better peripherals, integrated CPLDs etc.

-- CHarles



> Hi
>
> I have an even better rumor(Fact).
> Philips will strike back latter this year with a realy low cost
> version of lpc2100.
> The series name will be LPC213X and will be LPC2104 alike with 64K
> Flash. (More I dont know)
>
> So I guess we will see a real battle within the low cost ARM.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> John
>
> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "tsvetanusunov" <tusunov@m...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > you may be interested in the recent rumor spead in
>
> comp.embedded.arch:
> > <quote>
> > Just FYI, ATMEL has updated the Flyer
> > The new members of the AT91SAM7Sxx will have a 256KF/64KR,
> > a 128KF/32KR + EMAC. An ATMEL's guy, told me that they will add
>
> also a
>
> > 256KF/64KR version with external bus interface like the AT91R40008.
> > I heard that the AT91SAM7S64 will be priced 3.5 USD, so I let you
> > imagine the price of the SAM7S32...
> > </quote>
> >
> > it seems that Atmel watches Philips LPCs closely as they changed
> > (increased) the Flash/Ram amount of the first anounced devices :)
> >
> > also it seems that ARM7 is going to replace completely some PIC and
> > AVRs in the next years from most of applications (unless 8bit flash
> > price go more down under ;)
> >
> > Best regards
> > Tsvetan
> > ---
> > PCB prototypes for $26 at http://run.to/pcb
> > (http://www.olimex.com/pcb)
> > PCB any volume assembly (http://www.olimex.com/pcb/protoa.html)
> > Development boards for ARM, AVR, PIC, and MSP430
> > (http://www.olimex.com/dev)
>
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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