[sdiy] Small MCU MIPS, DMIPS?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se> wrote:
>Another thing thats bug's me are why we still are
>restricted to those silly amounts of RAM on small
>MCUs?

As mentioned before, RAM is expensive real estate-wise.

>Some Japanese manufacturers have several devices
>that have onboard DRAM, i once, (many years ago)
>saw a LQFP38 8bit MCU who had 1MB SRAM!
>
>Herr Dixon mentioned analog could be dead in 10 years
>time i think digital(MCU) will be quite problematic
>as well if the race towards fingernail sized BGA's
>are continuing, at least for diy, else we have to
>rely entirely on prefabricated PCB's,perhaps that's
>better, at least a tad boring..? No more 741 and 555!

I bolted from analog a while ago for just this reason.  My choice was
the FPGA for it's sheer logic gate count which can accomodate very
complex systems.  I am anything but disappointed.  But BGA is a
soldering PITA, so I work with "dev" boards that are already soldered
and tested.  These are subsidized by the mfr, so the value is rather
high in my opinion.  Yeah, I don't get to solder solder solder, but I
think I've done some things I couldn't possibly have done without the
FPGA at my disposal.  DIY for me has become writing my ideas in
Verilog.  Maybe not so much fun for everyone, but then neither is
mountain climbing.

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