Cool news. Almost all my designs in the past two years have been 3V or
3.3V designs (except PIC for various reasons, which have been mostly
5V).=20

Did Microchip say if they'll ever have 3V flash programming (i.e. bulk
erase at less than 4. whatever volts)? I personally find this a major
stumbling block to low voltage PIC designs. Right now I use a high
voltage ICSP interface but I'd love to go to LVP (with full functions)
on a 3v only design.=20

I have to say, I've been doing a lot of MSP430 designs lately and I
love that family of MPUs.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems=20

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:04:02 -0400, Ken Pergola wrote:
>=A0
>=A0Good news for those that need more horsepower at lower voltages:
>=A0
>=A0I just learned today from a Microchip web seminar that there will be =
some
>=A0PIC18 PICmicros coming out in the future that can operate at 10 MIPS =
at 3
>=A0volts. This is a pretty significant development since with current PI=
C18F
>=A0PICmicros, you typically have to run at 4.2 volts or higher (with res=
pect to
>=A0Vss) to get 10 MIPS.
>=A0
>=A0Slated for Q1 of 2005
>=A0128 KB Enhanced Flash
>=A0Nanowatt
>=A064/80 pins

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