On Jan 17, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Jose Da Silva wrote:

> Larger population of programmers (from the desktop category) now fits
> under the (microcontroller) curve, so not only will the "excellent"
> category move higher up the scale, but likewise, the "junk" category
> will certainly creep lower.  ;-)

I dunno.  Seems like the opportunity would be in "embedded x86";
something like the current ARMs with 64k of RAM and Flash integrated,
and a bunch of peripherals.  Since we're talking C (?), the underlying
CPU is relatively less important, and you get code whose sucky-ness
depends on the authors understanding of the peripheral set, and
ultimately, their understanding of the problem being solved.  That's
nothing new.

What MIGHT be new is a bunch of people used to writing 4MB visual xxx
applications who suddenly think they can write microcontroller code,
which would be moderately amusing, but those would be eliminated
long before the code sees the light of day.

It is moderately amusing that the amount of cache in a modern
x86 processor dwarfs the total memory in the average embedded CPU.

BillW
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