Lpc2000

Hi Charles,

looked into the Atmel devices as well. Impressive pricing,
unfortunately the number of I/O pins suffered badly when simplifying
the devices. As far as I know the 48-pin device come with an
embarassing 21 I/O pins while the LPC2104 has 32 I/O pins. There goes
pretty much the whole price difference if we look at cost per I/O.
Also the Atmel devices have zero waitstates up to 30 MHz, while the
Philips devices execute from Flash close to 0 WS up to 60 MHz.
Nevertheless, single voltage supply saves some money. 
Philips opened a market that others like Atmel (and ST) are now
entering as well. It is going to be a great time for customers and
developers ;-)
I wonder how and when Philips will respond.

Cheers, Bob

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Charles Manning <manningc2@a...> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 October 2004 19:26, you wrote:
> > Read all about it :
> >
> >
http://www.eeproductcenter.com/micro/brief/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=5050
> >0829
> >
> > Bobi
> >
> 
> It looks like these new Atmels may have fixed the "slow peripherals"
that so 
> many ARM micros have. 
> 
> The blurb says single cycle pin-wiggling (end of the slow GPIO
problem??). I 
> also read somewhere that the SPI goes a lot faster too.
> 
> -- CHalres