On Dec 8, 2004, at 6:59 PM, BA wrote:

>> What is your opinion for this? I did not find too many applications 
>> for
>> TCP/IP for smaller MCUs.

There's a lot of interest and use for small internet hosts.

Whether that requires a small microcontroller or not is a separate 
question.
I used to watch the three major technologies for "small internet" with 
great
interest, especially as the all converged to very similar price points.

1) Assisted connectivity, ala emWare.
2) hardware implementations 'tcp/ip on a chip'
3) highly tuned software stacks for popular CPU architectures.

These days, "3" is clearly winning, since Moore's law and made "low end
CPUs" keep getting bigger.  See my message about the "$100 paradox" in
the archives.  The average cell phone has more than one processor in it 
capable
of running tcp/ip without much trouble at all, and costs are dominated 
by
paying for the connection capability rather than the hardware...

BillW
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