Re: Atmel AVR CAN

From: Ulf Samuelsson (ulf_at_atmel.nospam.com)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:02:05 +0200

"Erik Hermann" <erikhermann@amacando.de> skrev i meddelandet
news:c6la9m$d9m2r$1@ID-230069.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Jim Granville wrote:
>
> > You mean the customers that have not yet heard of the ST STR710FZ2 ? ;)
> >
> > $/10K FLASH RAM MHz Pins Serial
> > -----------+------+-------+-----+------+--------+-------------
> > AT90CAN128 $7.50 128K 4K 16MHz 64TQFP CAN
> > STR710FZ2 $7.80 256K 64K 48MHz 144TQFP CAN/USB/HDLC
> > STR712FR1 $nya 128K 16K 48MHz 64TQFP CAN
>
> Well, I've used a lot of CAN Micros from Fujitsu years ago.
> They are very good and much cheaper than PIC's with CAN.
> We payed around 5 $ for a 16 Bit uC with 64K Flash and 4k RAM
> (+ 10 Bit ADC, etc).
> And you get the full featured C development environment for free.
>
> I really think that Atmel is much too late.
> Why use an expensive AVR if you can get a much cheaper/better HC08/HC12
> Fujitsu FX or Mitsubishi M16 ?
> AVR's are good for hobbyists and small volumes, not for industrial
> and automotive applications.

Yes, and there seem to be about 500 million hobbyists since that is how
many AVRs that has been delivered since 1987 :-)

> > There was some talk of a monolithic FlashARM from Atmel
> > - is that close/canned/never really existed... ?
>
> Why not use TI or Philips?