Why all the guessing about what US$0.49 per chip means? In August 2002, they sent me basic information after I *contacted* the product information center.
$0.49 per unit if you commit to 25k units per year on mask ROM parts.
And no cheap DIP versions available (at that time) for hobbyists.
Interesting part especially regarding a very low power RTC. But I haven't compared it power-wise to the 12F675 as a battery-powered RTC, yet.
-g
William Chops Westfield <billw@CISCO.COM> wrote:Does anyone here have real working experience with
the MSP430 chips??

there's a relatively active yahoo group about the msp430 (called "msp430")\
Not as good as piclist, but with a relatively good signal/noise ratio.

Specifically re operating
speed/power as compared to a PIC? Having browsed
the datasheet and instruction set i'm still confused
as to how many clock cycles/mips etc and how an
MSP430 at 8MHz xtal might compare to a PIC 14-bit
core at 20MHz xtal.

I thought that the mips/clock cycle were pretty easy, but the relationship
between crystal and internal clock frequency can be a bit complex. With an
8MHz crystal, though, the options are somewhat restricted. It's all the
options you have for generating 8MHz (for example) from a 32kHz crystal that
get complicated.


And any experiences with the low price end of the
range, pref OTP etc. I've seen the TI website
claim of "prices starting at $0.49" but i've not
seen a lot of evidence to back that up yet.

It seems to me that at moderate quantities, you get the best price by
looking for 'deals' (ie on ebay: 16c57s for less than $.50 each:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4663&item=2508795198&rd=1
) while at high quantities, you start "dealing" with your distributers, and
get prices that are based on ... complex issues, and rather subject to
change. I don't like it much; if TI says it costs $0.49 in 10000s, I want
there to be a distributer who I can send $5000 and get my chips...

BillW

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