> No-one produces chips like this 'just in case' - I wonder what the
> intended vtarget application is  - a single-chip car perhaps ? Must be
> something pretty special to justify that number of I/Os!

This one takes the cake but it doesn't look that out of place
amongst Japanese microcontrollers. Mitsubishi, Sharp, Fujitsu,
Toshiba, all make microcontrollers with several of everything in
them. The problem is the typical Japanese business model doesn't
really suit a typical PIC customer. Standard packing quantities of a
sample or a shipping container and development tools in the same
price bracket as the average familly car don't really make them Digi-
key fodder.

Steve.

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Steve Baldwin                Electronic Product Design
TLA Microsystems Ltd         Microcontroller Specialists
PO Box 15-680, New Lynn      http://www.tla.co.nz
Auckland, New Zealand        ph  +64 9 820-2221
email: steveb@tla.co.nz      fax +64 9 820-1929
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