Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
>   
>> Neither am I. If I read my tealeaves right the 16-bit market will be
>> small because the >8 bit market will be dominated by 32 bit
>> architectures (ARM, probably others too).
>>
>> OTOH (literally!) I don't see any real (readily available) alternatives
>> for the 10F's. Maybe Microchip should look down, not up.
>>
>>     
>
> Microchip has already got the low end market right. They are
> already the No 1 in the 8-bit market in terms of unit shipment.
> So they have to look up. They want to be a 2-billion company
> so they got to be successful in the 16-bit market.
>
> If Microchip would license the ARM core, then maybe it is
> a different story. I think Microchip will beat Atmel and
> Philips pretty easily in the ARM clone market if they
> want to.
>
> Regards,
> Xiaofan
>
>   
I am inclined to agree with Wouter that Microchip is missing something 
by not expanding
the very low end (PIC10Fxxxx). There are huge possibilities for 
replacement of random
logic if the speed could be raised to at least 10Mhz (I think 8Mhz would 
be easy),
and doubling code & RAM memory size.

This would allow the PIC16Fxxxx to be used as specialized counters / 
timers and serial
protocol converters, such as standard serial to manchester converters,  
quadrature tach
converters, etc

--Bob
.
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