Lpc2000

I don't think a higher end device like this would benefit those currently 
designing with the LPC2K series devices. This is because ARM9 devices 
typically don't contain Flash, and sometimes no RAM for that matter. They 
are usually targeted for full-featured OSs (Linux, VxWorks, etc.) that can 
take advantage of the caches, MMU, etc.. They also have much higher pin 
counts (and more often than not are only available in BGA).

A good example is the ARM9200 from Atmel (which although is available in a 
super large 208 pin PQFP it contains no Flash so it is not suitable for my 
designs which don't have the board space, cost or design time budget to 
add external Flash and SRAM/SDRAM).

Don't get me wrong, I am very much looking forward to seeing what Philips 
can do with ARM9, yet it won't be your typically LPC2K part. However in 
the future (probably not near, mind you) we could see super SoC ARM9 
devices with 1MB of Flash and RAM, or more - how many designers 5 years 
ago were dreaming of 32 bit RISC with 1/2MB Flash and 64KB RAM on chip, 
and now that is a reality thanks to Philips, Atmel and others???

- Rod

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Robert Adsett wrote:

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> The subject is not a typo.
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> Some of you have certainly seen this by now
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> http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA505862?nid=2019
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> Basically a 200MHz ARM9 core.  Not really very much information (typical
> press release and I haven't found anything else).
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> They do suggest motor control as a target, but there is no mention of PWM
> which is a major oversight if true.
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> Intriguingly it has a floating point unit on board.
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> They are talking sampling in Q2 so very much vapour at the moment.
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> Robert
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