Re: Will SoC completely replace generalized microcontrollers?

Telenochek wrote: 
Sure I understand that right now FPGA dev tools put a heavy burden on
the developer. Same goes for ARM development.

I've heard similar arguments for software development: "The powerful UML-based tools will make conventional programming languages like C/C++ obsolete for most programming."

In fact, I know of one company that replaced a legacy 8051 design (written in C and assembly) with a new one based on a ColdFire and developed entirely in state-machine UML that is compiled down to executable code with a custom run-time environment.

They seem happy with their new implementation, although they managed to replace a $30 BoM with a $100 BoM, upped their power usage, and upped their physical volume. And (IMHO) made their code largely unmaintainable to "conventional" embedded systems developers. Ever seen a UML state machine for bit-banging I2C? Blech.

A few years back I was convinced that we'd be seeing large-scale use of Java for embedded devices, mostly based on the availability of cheap Java programmers and MCU that speak Java natively. Hasn't happened yet. Now I doubt that it ever will, although Ajile is still making their CPUs and seems sustainable, if not profitable.

Horses for courses.

Kelly
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