Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "lpc2100_fan" <lpc2100_fan@y...>
wrote:
> 
> 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.

My email address is just because at one point I was considering using
the OKI part and started a Yahoo group to attract other developers.  I
did not end up using the part and I don't feel it is important enough
to change the email address of all my Yahoo group memberships.  

As to the facts, I was told about the ARM parts in early 2003 and
found a press release on the Philips web site.  I don't know what you
are calling the "official" announcement, but I would say a press
release would do the job.  I am not saying that they were promising
parts, I am just saying that they announced that they would be making
the parts about a year before they had anything to show.  Even at the
time that they dropped my local rep, they had just started taking
sample orders.  

I am not trying to knock Philips.  I would like to use their parts at
some point.  I am just pointing out that they had a painful intro of
the initial parts.  

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the lack of parts in the leadless
packages.  Some of the documentation indicated these would be
available and others did not mention it.  When I finally tracked this
down with an FAE it seems that the earlier parts just would not fit in
the small packages.  Did they ever come out with these?  Or are all
the packages still leaded?