Lpc2000

Rick,

I was there when when Philips announced the LPC2106 officially in
summer 2003 and it did take approx 4 months to find everything from
documentation to evaluation boards which became available in November
2003 first from IAR and shortly thereafter in Jan / Feb timeframe
already from Keil with the LPC2129, right at the time when that device
was announced together with I think 6 others early 2004. 
There was a painful time end of 2003 / beginning of 2004 when Philips
switched from local sales reps to Philips sales in the US. Our local
rep was pretty good and it took a little for the new guy to get up to
speed. Now here is where I totally disagree. The official announcement
from Philips for the LPC2106 was in summer 2003 and by November we
could buy evaluation boards of the shelf. This is better than just
samples. 

It is OK to be a fan of OKI-ARM CPUs as your e-mail says, but it is
not OK to change facts of the past. I don't say that Philips did
everything right BUT they did the best job of all seminconductor
vendors in bringing ARM microcontrollers to the market.

Bob 

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Collins" <OKI-ARM-mcus@a...> wrote:
> 
> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "johnnorgaard2003" <john_2005@c...>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi 
> > 
> > I will stick with Philips ARM. They release datasheet and User
> Manual
> > and within 3 weeks I got samples for LPC2132 and LPC2138. And now
> you
> > can order production quantity.
> > 
> > I have also looked at ST and Atmel. But Atmel have a very bad
> reputation
> > of announcing devices month and years before actual having it.
> > When SAM7 series was announced I order samples, I am still waiting.
> > Next year Philips will have LPC214x which is LPC213x + USB.
> > My bid is that LPC214x will be in production quantities before Atmel
> > AT91SAM7S64. Anyone wanna bet ?? :)
> 
> You should have been there when Philips orignially announced the
> LPC2xxx parts.  It was literally a year before anyone saw silicon and
> they would not ship samples for several months after they said samples
> were available.  I was working closely with my local rep to get info,
> not parts, just info, and it was very slow coming.  Then just about
> the time they actually had a data sheet available and I wanted to get
> samples, they dropped all third party reps and I was back to square
> one with the Philips sales guy.  I never did get my samples.