In Italy we haven't problems to buy from 1 to 10000 chips from
distributors or directly from Philips and are readily availbale and with
short delivery time; if you are located in USA you may consider to buy
them in Europe. Our distributors are Eurodis and Arrow.
Best regards,
Massimo Manca, Micron Engineering
Jaime Andres Aranguren Cardona wrote:
>Hello, Massimo
>
>Tghanks for the information, will keep an eye on it.
>Anyway, my main concern is about availability of the
>chips.... Seems to me that, although quite powerful
>and easy to use, at the moment they are not very
>widespreaded.
>
>If I've found trouble to find, say LPC2106, nothing to
>say abut newer and more advanced sub-families.
>
>Any comment?
>
>JaaC
>
>
>--- Micron Engineering <micronpn@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>>For serious application you have to use LPC 211X or
>>LPC 22XX families
>>because actually available LPC210X family hasn't
>>flash protection scheme
>>available and also new releases of bootloaders will
>>not be able to solve
>>the problem. In practice every one using a jtag
>>emulator may read flash
>>content and reprogram other chips. This means that
>>someone may copy your
>>executable program. LPC211x and 22xx family and also
>>new members of
>>LPC210x family will have flash security available.
>>New LPX21xx memebers
>>will haven't 1.8V Vcc because will be obtained
>>internally. Actually all
>>mcu of the same family are high to low pin to pin
>>compatible but until
>>now I have no information about new chips.
>>Massimo Manca, Micron Engineering
>>
>>Jaime Andres Aranguren Cardona wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Thanks... seems that at the moment are not
>>>
>>>
>>available
>>
>>
>>>for online ordering. Would I need to call them?
>>>
>>>What concerns me the most is about future
>>>availability. LPCs seems to be such nice
>>>implementations of ARM 7 core, and we are
>>>
>>>
>>evaluating
>>
>>
>>>the possiblity of using them for future projects.
>>>
>>>
>>But
>>
>>
>>>if actual devices won't be in the market for
>>>
>>>
>>buying,
>>
>>
>>>maybe it's not worth the effort, and we would
>>>
>>>
>>rather
>>
>>
>>>stay on po`pular and already available solutions,
>>>
>>>
>>like
>>
>>
>>>8051 and derivatives, or even PICs (although they
>>>
>>>
>>are
>>
>>
>>>VERY different arcitectures, being the LPCs much
>>>
>>>
>>more
>>
>>
>>>powerful), or even another 16/32 bit
>>>
>>>
>>microcontrollers
>>
>>
>>>(Motorola's, Renesas', etc...)
>>>
>>>I'd like to have all of your comments/thoughts
>>>
>>>
>>about
>>
>>
>>>the subject.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>JaaC
>>>
>>>
>>>--- Chris Graham <chris_e_gr@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I got some LPC2106s from Arrow in the US.
>>>>
>>>>- Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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