On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:27 PM, N. T. wrote: > Silicon is cheap. Did you see sub dollar ARMs? Lithography is costly > as far as I know. FPGA can be in huge mass production and you won't > need to spend millions and millions on developing new and new masks. > Are you saying that it is more cheap to manufacture an FPGA with unused circuits in it creating an 8 bit soft core MCU from it than producing a 32 bit MCU and only using part of the circuits it provides (in terms of memory or peripheries) for low-end products like LED drivers? Or the power consumption or package size if better than the specific MCU? Tamas --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .