Lpc2000

> And I complained to Philips that they'd wasted too much silicon on RAM,
> and Flash. Mind you I don't use RTOS, or HLL, or TCP/IP. I'd be happy
> with 16K flash and 4k RAM. I only want 32 bits for sheer processing
> speed. I can't do what I want an 8 bit device or a 16 bit device at the
> current consumption I need. Everybody wants different things. The
> ADuC702x series from Analog devices looks like a much better balanced
> family of parts to me, although I am still trialling the LPC.

And might I say 'thanks!' to Philips for not listening to you! ;)

I for one am rather excited about the new LPC23XX chips, not only because 
of the (apparent) on-board 10/100 PHY (not just the MAC, parts which lack 
a PHY make it a PITA since you now need another chip and more sharp-edge 
traces), yet also the (hopefully) larger RAM (most powerful LPC yet huh?)!

We have a design that has been working for months now using a bit-banged 
CS8900A off of a LPC2106, using LWIP and an in-house RTOS. 60KB/20KB 
Flash/RAM is all that we need for the basics (multi-threading, telnet, 
httpd, cli, newlib, etc.), however the more RAM, the better the buffering 
and therefore higher the performance AND more importantly, the more 
applications we can handle. So, Philips, please keep on doing what you do 
best and add more peripherals and please more on-board RAM!

- Rod