Hi,

Graham Daniel wrote:
>
> Stefan Sczekalla-Waldschmidt wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Microchip third quarter Line-Card showed a 14Pin 16C472 as future
> > product.
> > Does somebody know why it4s not anymore listed in the fourth quarter
> > Linecard ?
> >
>
> My guess is that it's OTP and with all the competition developing among
> various chip manufacturers to switch to Flash memory they have decided
> to drop it in favour of the 16F71 and 718, flash, A2D...
> regards,
> Graham

Not neccesarily a otp. I4m not sure If I recall for sure but it could
also have been a flash part. But you may be right, because AVR, Motorola
and especially Scenix are competitors Microchip must have to keep in
mind. So pushing the F87X to the market may
be "THE" Deal, I can imagine that it will become as popular as tthe
16C84. With it4s
build in peripherals, it may do things you where you otherwise evetually
would use a
scenix with software-peripheral. I miss the 16F472 because of his lower
pincount - my target application has only few room to stay, and while
I4m somewhat lazy, I liked
the build-in peripherals - and a 12C67X - well could have 4 more pins
...

Kind regards

        Stefan Sczekalla-Waldschmidt
        ssw@oikossw.de