Re: Alternative for Silabs (cygnal)

From: Jim Granville (no.spam_at_designtools.co.nz)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:28:43 +1300

Tilmann Reh wrote:

> StackTools schrieb:
>
>
>>Is there a good alternative for the cygnal processors?
>>- In System Programmable
>>- In Application Programmable
>>- Small packages (footprints) available (like the MLP11)
>>- Not to expansive development tools
>>- Wide range family
>>- Cheap (cheaper then the silabs)
>>- Reliable (not the same flash problems as the Silabs)

??

>>- It don't have to be 8051 cores.
>
>
> Look at the LPC900 family from Philips, Atmel's AVR, or MSP430 from TI.

  Philips have a MLP11 sized package on their road map (LPC910x), the
other two do not, AFAIK.
  Philips also lack the on chip debug, but they have lower speed/lower
Analog performance, and thus also lower prices.
-jg