Does Philips LPC have similar devtools like Microchip?
How are their pricing like?

John

--- Mike Harrison <mike@whitewing.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:04:11 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >>>> 26 x 12 is 312 so you would need external RAM.
> The SX's
> >>>> have 262 bytes at most.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> If I understand Bob's application, he doesn't
> need 312 characters,
> >>> he needs smaller numbers of characters in the
> corners of a video
> >>> screen, sized and placed in spots at the corners
> of the screen,
> >>> in spaces corresponding to the 26x12 matrix.
> >>>
> >>> What about a chip/circuit that does that
> explicitly? 8x1 in each
> >>> of the four corners or similar?  Speed
> limitations are different
> >>> than memory limitations...  Or does it need to
> be a drop-in
> >>> replacement for the old ST part?
> >>>
> >>> BillW
> >>>
> 
> I'd suggest taking a hard look at the Philips
> LPC2101 ARM -  $2 (100x), 70MIPs, has 2 SPI/SSP
> ports,
> one of which has a fifo, and also variable word
> length, so you could for example use 10 bits to do
> 8x8 chars with spacing, and as long as you keep the
> fifo full, it ought to come out in a solid line
> of pixels.
> IAR do a free version of their C/Asm devtool with
> 32K limit, which should be plenty.
> 
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