> The complexity does come in because there are so many of them: NXP, > ST, TI, Broadcom, Marvell and Atmel, each one a little different; but > if you are looking for low price/complexity, just stick to one of > them, for instance NXP LPC series. >
8 pin DIP?! Does anyone release (new) though hole parts anymore? :) SMT is just something everyone has to get use to. Its not going away. I don't mind the leadless pkgs but we shy away from BGAs so far. Rework is difficult and we have no xray for inspection. As I told you when you were here, the IR DirectFETs is the closest thing we use to hidden pads but it has huge contacts. You can even do a fair job of them by hand squirting paste and throwing in the reflow oven. Agreed, each processor vendor has different peripherals. The CMSIS libraries abstract that. Its not 100% universal (yet), but you can spend a little time fixing and abstracting the HAL as much as you need. The cores are 100% identical though. We've had very little trouble moving stuff to/from a M0 to M4. We're using the M0 as smart I2C I/O expanders w/ a M4 motherboard and the com code is the same in both. So yes, still a little different but 1000x more common than different processor families. Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
