Hi,

how do you then classify the DSPs? I guess between 1 and 2, as they
become cheaper but have a huge amount of complexity. But I want to read
also your opinion.

Regards,
Imre

PS. uChip announces dsPIC...

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On Tue, 27 May 2003, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> > I'm afraid PIC-class microcontrollers will have no place
> > in the future.
>
> Get a copy of Adam Osborne's microprocessors series of books. I don't
> recall when these books were written, but I guess around 1980? Somewhere
> he predicts the future of microprocessors (in which he includes
> microcontrollers). I think his prediction still holds. He predicted a
> split into
>
> 1) a low-end price-driven market where new architectures can get a
> footheld when they are cheap enough (think PIC, AVR, 8051, Motorola, and
> also cheap far-east uC)
>
> 2) a high-end performance and development-effort driven market, where a
> newcomer will have a very hard time, so few architectures will dominate
> (think Intel on the desktop, PowerPC for embedded)
>
> I don't see confdigurable logic compete in either field, because it
> fails in price for 1) and in preformance for 2). IMHO a third market
> might evolve:
>
> 3) a special-purpose market for uC with peripherals that have not yet
> made it into the mainstream chips of market 1) (think USB, FireWire,
> active tags, BlueTooth, high-resolution A/D or D/A, codec, LCD-driver,
> ethernet, CAN, etc). I think this might be a market for configurable
> logic (although the Scenix approach might also be succesfull: just
> provide lots of cheap MIPs).
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
>
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