Lpc2000

I think this is a very interesting development.  I have been asking TI
about their ARM CPUs for a couple of years.  Since they are willing to
sell their parts (although there is nothing available even as samples
just yet) I have started a Yahoo group for the TMS430 ARM parts.  

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TMS470_ARM/

(this time I remembered to post the link!)

To Tsvetanusunov, what TMS430 chip is on your board?  Is it the
TMS470R1A256?  The web site does not actually say and they list both
the 256 and the 128 as "related devices".  Is this board currently
available?  The TI site says status is "preview".  Will you be selling
it directly?  $400 is a bit steep for such a simple board, even if it
includes a simple JTAG dongle.  


--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "tsvetanusunov" <tusunov@m...> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The info for TMS470 actually have been on TI web site for years but 
> they never made the datasheets public, as didn't want to deal with 
> small customers.
> Now TI changed their mind and the datasheets for the first three 
> members are already on the web.
> The budgetary pricing for their TMS470R1A256 with 256K Flash 12K RAM 
> is $6.85/1K
> 
> (and yes I'm biased as the only development board on TI web available 
> is ours :)
> 
> Best regards
> Tsvetan
> ---
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> (http://www.olimex.com/pcb)
> PCB any volume assembly (http://www.olimex.com/pcb/protoa.html)
> Development boards for ARM, AVR, PIC, and MSP430
> (http://www.olimex.com/dev)