Re: another bizarre architecture

On 31 Jan 2007 11:06:49 -0800, "larwe" <zwsdotcom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 31, 2:03 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This looks really weird to me...

http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/appnote_number/3960

MAXQ is aimed at very low power consumption applications. They have
been trying desperately to sell it to us. Unfortunately for any real
project we've considered, MSP430 is indistinguishable from MAXQ power-
wise. We have a lot of investment in ARM, AVR and MSP430; MAXQ is just
"yet another proprietary microcontroller" with no really compelling
feature. No sale.

And it's from Maxim.... usually a distinct disadvantage, availabilitywise

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