Lpc2000

Hi James,

good question. Atmel has been announcing the SAM7 in Q1/04, as far as
I know they made it all the way to samples yet but not to volume
production. ST was not as agressive announcing the STR7 mostly when
their sales or FAEs did presentations, only resently more open in
adds. Do they have samples? I would guess so but I am not sure.
Philips announced the LPC2138 in in November (2004) and there were
samples available in Nov as well. Given the track record of Philips
with their ARM devices, volume prodcution will not be tomorrow but
most likely enough devices to do prototypes and some evaluation boards
will be available in Q1. It just seems, that ST and Atmel are still in
the catch up mode and had to announce a little prematurely to not give
the whole new ARM7 small microcontroller market to Philips. No doubt
that Atmel and ST will be there eventually but for now availability
from Philips seems best. 

Cheers, Bob

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "jamesasteres" <jamesasteres@y...> wrote:
> 
> Are any of the competing ARM-based processors such as the Atmel SAM7 
> or ST Micro processor available yet?  And is the LPC2138 going to be 
> in the supply chain any time soon?
> James