On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote: > Marcel Birthelmer escreveu: >>> As I said in the original post, I regret they don't having USB or Ethernet. >>> Of course a dsPIC is faster, but I have a product which uses a dsPIC, >>> SRAM and PLD to capture images from a CCD and send them encrypted by >>> Ethernet, and I think that one of these Xmega may perform faster because >>> of the DMA and the crypto-engine and I wouldn't even need the PLD. >>> >>> >> >> Just out of curiosity, what's the price point of a memory-mappable >> ethernet IC (AMD PCnet or whatever) vs. SRAM/PLD? >> > > The PLD (not FPGA) and SRAM are for frame-grabbing. For the Ethernet > interface I use the RTL8019AS (older versions) and ENC28J60. So wouldn't you still stand to gain from replacing everything except the ethernet mac with an xmega? -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist