The price increase is ok with me.. I am here and use the chip because of the support I get from the great members on this site.. I am and will always be a loyal customer. Thank you Bean and everyone else who have given me support. This is still the greatest site. I can do so much with the chip and help of the members here. Happy Thanksgiving everyone...
Someone mentioned of a tiny propeller with 2 or 3 cores...That's a great idea! It's the same thing that ATMEL does for its ATMEGA series and it ATTiny series.
I am newbie and started with MCU a couple months back. I actually started reading about parallax's products, the Propeller and all. Great stuff...Then I got to read about AVR. They are cheap. An ATMEGA8, with 8K flash and some eeprom and sram costs about $2 a piece. (Sorry I don't mean to advertise, but I get my ATMEGA8 from eBay for $9 for 5 pieces, free shipping, from China/Hong Kong. But it's worth the wait of 2 weeks. So, I have not used the SX, but sure like its being able to go up to 75Mhz, unless most AVR chips.
Anyway, I would love to see the Tiny Propeller version.
Seems like TI is also jumping on the bandwagon by introducing their Piccolo chips which is also a scaled down version of their
previous 32 bit real-time processor for a target price of $2 to $8 depending on number of IOs.
I think unebonnevie is referring to the general notion of producing a "small" version of an existing chip, not a multi-core AVR per se. But hoo, this thread seems to have turned into a wish-list...
To come full circle, if the future of the SX is potentially an issue, I would love to hear from Ken (or anyone else at Parallax) about how this might also affect the price and future of the Stamp... or rather, would Parallax at some point need to contemplate porting the Stamp firmware to a new platform if the SX goes bye-bye (I believe all the Stamps except the BS1 and vanilla BS2 are SX based). Ditto other boards like the Ping, etc, that use on-board SXes.
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I am newbie and started with MCU a couple months back. I actually started reading about parallax's products, the Propeller and all. Great stuff...Then I got to read about AVR. They are cheap. An ATMEGA8, with 8K flash and some eeprom and sram costs about $2 a piece. (Sorry I don't mean to advertise, but I get my ATMEGA8 from eBay for $9 for 5 pieces, free shipping, from China/Hong Kong. But it's worth the wait of 2 weeks.
Anyway, I would love to see the Tiny Propeller version.
previous 32 bit real-time processor for a target price of $2 to $8 depending on number of IOs.
www.ti.com/corp/docs/landing/f280xx-piccolo/index.htm
To speed up time to market, there should be no changes whatsoever to the silicon when creating tinyProp,
except to disable some cogs. : )
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All AVRs are single core devices. Where did you come up with the multiple core nonsense?
To come full circle, if the future of the SX is potentially an issue, I would love to hear from Ken (or anyone else at Parallax) about how this might also affect the price and future of the Stamp... or rather, would Parallax at some point need to contemplate porting the Stamp firmware to a new platform if the SX goes bye-bye (I believe all the Stamps except the BS1 and vanilla BS2 are SX based). Ditto other boards like the Ping, etc, that use on-board SXes.
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