[sdiy] Tiny FPU chip/16 bit micros?

[Paul Maddox]

Jason,

> It's not a problem with the ARM architecture itself - just the glue
vendors
> supply around it. I would imagine it's "pretty common with
> /microcontroller-style/ ARM processors" :)

funny, thats not what the Philips guy said :-)

> The very first commercially available ARM processors (1987 - when I
started
> to learn to program them) had the capability of 8MHz I/O - and there are
> (now) boards available with PCI controllers that use an ARM core as the
main
> processor...

its shame their SDK is damned expensive!!
Last I looked, it was £5K for an ARM9 dev kit, and that was STUDENT pricing!

Paul