Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Jan Szymanski" <janek@b...> wrote:
> 
> did you have a look at Intel's PXA... processors with built in lcd 
> controller ?

The PXA255 certainly is a nice processor.  Unfortunately such a 
system would cost at least 2x the LPC solution, the fine pitch BGA 
package would mean I'd have to find a new board fab that can 
handle .004" traces and teensy vias, and yadadada....

But really the LPC's are a good match for my application, and
I'm well up on the learning curve.  Like most small developers,
the total amount of development time I have to spend on a project is 
not enough to learn more than one new tool or one complex chip on a 
single job.  As it is I spend hundreds of hours a year "learning" 
stuff just to keep current.  A few years back my FPGA supplier 
killed  an old development system that I knew extremely well, and 
introduced a very different new one.  That cost me a lot time just to 
not lose ground!  Learning is the biggest investment I have to make 
to stay in business, and each new learning curve involves real 
costs.  So if I can make an LPC work in this project, so be it.

But as long as we're on the subject, Philips and ARM would do
well to check out Intel's $399 PXA compiler that integrates into
the VisualC++ IDE.  Good thinking, IMHO.  That infamous Keil .pdf 
touts the LPC as the "8051 of the 21st Century."  If that's to really 
be the true we need cheap, good development tools like Intel supplies.

Bill T.
http://www.kupercontrols.com