In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, kgracey wrote: Coco34: There is a more recent posting regarding SX52 availability which has been made a sticky note: [url=http://forum.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=7&m=95246][u]http://forum.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=7&m=95246[/u][/url] The SX design is static because Ubicom made a strategic decision to change their business model to pursue communication processors about four years ago. This started with SX applications involving TCP/IP and communications, which aimed the company in the direction of their 32-bit processors and internet communications business focus. As a result, Ubicom successfully created a new product line focused on fewer customers with larger purchasing power. These changes were coupled with a change in staff and leadership, change in business plan and financiing. This proved to be a productive niche for their company. The SX doesn't fit their business, so it is handled exclusively by Parallax. What remains consistent through the years is: the SX architecture and silicon; Parallax's involvement with the SX as a tool provider; Parallax's customer support of the design; and most recently our agreement to make Parallax the only distribution point of the SX. Customers can use the design with confidence in the supply and support (except the SX52, of course). Our company has kept our customer's interests (and ours, which are the same) in regards to the SX. You need to ask Ubicom why they don't add USB to their IP processors, not Parallax. This isn't a common request among the 8-bit users we support, especially after they read the USB specification and try to make sense of how it would be implemented. Even Chip threw the USB spec in the air and reached for an FTDI or SiLabs USB bridge after a few days of considering a hardware/software solution for a Parallax product. Ken Gracey Parallax, Inc. ---------- End of Message ---------- You can view the post on-line at: http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=7&p=3&m=94091#m98741 Need assistance? Send an email to the Forum Administrator at forumadmin@parallax.com The Parallax Forums are powered by dotNetBB Forums, copyright 2002-2005 (http://www.dotNetBB.com)