On Tuesday, Jun 1, 2004, at 18:19 US/Pacific, Bob Ammerman wrote: >>> Peter, I don't think you understood my point. I just feel that the >>> multiple interconnects between microcontroller and glass shouldn't >>> make economic sense anymore. In many applications the large majority >>> of the pins in the uC are driving the LCD glass. Hmm. What would be nice if if someone (say, microchip) would put one of their flash-based LCD-driving microcontrollers on glass FOR us, breaking out the remaining 13 IOs (or whatever) to external connections for random purposes and programming of the flash... That would be... cool; and bring smaller displays within reach of lower volume designers... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.