I for one welcome our ARM-based overlords. lol

Seriously though, I'm new, but I thought this list was open to pretty
much any kind of discussion as long as it dealt with electronics or
electrical engineering, with a focus on PICS but not restricted to it.
I might be wrong, but a discussion on ARM would be nice.

I'm in the process of buying a Linksys "Slug" NSLU2 just to put linux
on it and use it as a quasi ARM system for development and testing.

-Josh

On 6/7/07, wouter van ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> Some fear that The List will die. So let's jump the next bandwagon: ARM
> chips. (note: I vote that we keep the name. piclist is a well-known
> brand.)
>
> Personally I think PICs are still interesting, especially the smaller
> 14-bit core chips. It is very easy to put a 6, 8 or 14 pin PIC chip into
> a design. One voltage, small package, choice of SMD or DIP, internal
> oscillator, 5V. Compared to that an ARM chip (for instance an LCP2103)
> is much more hassle. But even a small ARM chip runs circles around an
> 18F or dsPIC.
>
> So, who is using what ARM chips and what for?
>
> I use ARM chips in a series of classes. For informatics students these
> are the last-year LPC2106 boards with LSP, LCD, buttons, LEDs, RS232,
> and build-in Wiggler clone. They use C++. For electronics students we
> use the this-year boards with LPC2148, which adds USB and a PIC (!) as
> keyboard controller (deja-vue?). They use assembler and/or C. We hacked
> together a development environment based on PSPad, GCC and GDB/Insight.
> Works quite well, but a little rough on some edges. I am working on a
> realy great ARM library, which might be ready some time next year (do
> you smell vapourware?).
>
> I have not yet used ARMs for my own projects, but hope to do so when a
> new project arrives (and my library is ready).
>
> I sell ARM chips and Olimex ARM boards. Not in high volumes, but enough
> to be interesting.
>
> So what about you?
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
>
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