Re: Who is working with the SAM9263?


I did see a 32Bit/Linux EvalPCB, for just $69, recently on Atmel's web
site :

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/corporate/view_detail.asp?ref=&FileName=AVR3...

shows what can be done for well under $100 [Needs JTAG cable too]

It is really volume dependent and it helps negotiating with your CEM.
If you use the same components, on a low volume board as on a high
volume board then you still get the same price of components.

I looked at the cost of producing a board, and if you have a
low volume, then you run into problems with
minimum order value of many components, and at AT91RM9200DK
volumes that about doubled the price of the components alone.

The AVR Gateway was designed to be low cost and will be produced
in numbers where minimum order volume will not come into play.

Atmel has been reorganised so that the AT91 team and the AVR team
is now in a single organisation, and it is not unnatural to expect
that they will try to become more efficient producing development boards.

When you have STK500 volumes, you are a little bit more leverage,
than when you only have AT91RM9200DK volumes

Why would the AT91RM9200DK have been planned for low volume? Are you
saying that the AT91SMA926x-EK boards are expected to be low volume?

Of course not. I have several project in 100ku or higher volume.

Of course this is self fullfilling prophesy when you price one board
at $69 and the other at $1000!

Surprisingly we sold 100s of the AT91RM9200DK at $5000
just in my region. Sales volume improved with the AT91RM9200EK
but not dev tools revenue.
You do have people thinking a lot before making that investment
but I am only aware of one project which I lost mainly due to toolcost.
The decision was delayed and delayed and then something happened
which I believed would not have happened if they have had the tools
in house.

At $69 people will buy it just to play
with it and see how it runs even if they don't have a need.
Even better would be a design contest.

I bet that people coming to Atmel Seminars will be able
to go home with an AVR32 kit.
This is by far the best way to distribute the kits.

Is Atmel not marketing the ARM9 parts as hard as they are the AVR32?


The ARM9 parts at least get a lot of *my* attention.
I quite often go into a customer which has *almost* decided
to go with an LPC; and then show the SAM9260.

If a customer is planning to use external memory, then it will
be very hard for them to resist that little goodie.
The pin compatible flash version, the SAM9XE, should
make NXP and ST cry and trash their performance graphs.
While the flash is not significantly faster, you can loop
in the cache, and use the TCM for 4-5 x performance boost.

NXP does not have anything which comes close to the 9260
The LPC3xxx does not have ethernet and a lot of other goodies
present on the 9260 and the ST ARM9 part is a two chip solution
which should not have too much higher performance than an ARM7.

--
Best Regards,
Ulf Samuelsson
This is intended to be my personal opinion which may,
or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB


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