Lpc2000

>Hi all,
>
>this group has been such a great pool of help for each other and also
>for us at Philips. Some of the questions trigger internal design
>investigations, changes in documentation, slides for presentations
>and so on. Be assured we are reading and even participating. 
>The "Philips_Apps" ID is used for "official" purposes only by several
>members of our technical team.
>
>Today I would like to pick your brains and get the top-ten charts of
>most wanted features in future LPC2000 devices. I promise this will
>have an impact on product definition planning if a large number of
>you participate.
>
>By the way, some of the listed features are already in development
>but we would like to have confirmation we are working on the right
>things. The majority in the list however is totally open whether the
>features will be implemented in the future or not, your vote counts.
>Last but not least let me tell you that the price tag for these
>options is very different, e.g. doubling the memory size is a lot
>more expensive than adding a serial interface.

  I have a few wishes so I'll start with the practical and move from
  there:
    1. Smaller windows into flash so that it can be programmed on a
       finer scale.  Erasing and reprogramming 2K chunks at a time
       is wasteful and 64K chunks are even clumsier.
    2. Don't kill all the flash when programming part of it so that
       the processor can still run code from part of flash while
       programming another.
    3. Programmable blocks instead of all possible peripherals.
       This might take the form of an FPGA and it should come with
       basic programs to implement all the peripherals offered now.
       But it would allow new ways of combining them or one could
       use the programmable logic to extend processor operations or
       implement a different type or number of peripherals.
    4. Digital to Analog converter.
    5. Analog building blocks so that they can be used to process
       analog signals before converting or perhaps some of the analog
       building blocks would be used to make an A/D converter.
    6. On-chip BlueTooth or wireless connection so no cables are
       needed.

  Rob