[sdiy] ARM thru-hole options - was Propeller CPU

[Noah Vawter]

> The LPC2148 isn't the latest and greatest ARM-powered microcontroller
> out there these days (did anyone else take up Terry's Freescale offer?
> Cheap way to get a Cortex-M4 dev.kit!).  But its a significant step
> up from the AVR, and there is a lot of support for it out there, e.g.

I'm psyched for the K60, but I'm holding out for the version with the  
FPU.  I think that will be a heckuva CPU.
It's supposed to be available in 100-pin LQFP, which is actually  
solderable, imo.  FWIW, there is gcc for cortex M4, but on Mac, it's  
only built for OS/X 10.6+.

I don't know of any way to get floating-point in a smaller package : 
(  Does anyone?  I've looked into opencore.org's FPGA FPU, but there's  
a bit of a curve there...  I also wouldn't mind lower-precision  
floating point, e.g. 16-bit floating point.  It would be awesome if we  
could get enough people together to make a version of the opencore.org  
FPU core with a small program memory, e.g. 256 instructions like FV-1,  
in ASIC form...