> No-one produces chips like this 'just in case' - I wonder what the
> intended vtarget application is - a single-chip car perhaps ?

More like a single chip anything, like a DVD, VCR, MP3 player etc. The
large number of IOs is required to interface to graphical displays in
direct drive mode (or with some drivers on the glass). The DMA
capabilities suggest that it is intended to interface to the main device
datapath directly or not.

Quote a consumer application with lots of IO and some realtime
pretentions, like an inkjet printer, DVD or MP3 player, CDROM CD-RW,
better VCR (double ?) etc and you have its place.

At 16mm^2 I suspect that it requires BGA technology for assembly. Unless
the toaster people have mastered that maybe wait a little bit.

Peter

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