Today all the major players are doing multicore. Freescale has a wide variety of multicores for every industry imaginable. But they are not into software peripherals but hard ones. But their offerings very impressive and is their software support. The markets they have will be very, very hard for the P2 to crack. You won't sell the automotive or bio-med engineers on the fear of interrupts(and that understanding of them is almost impossible) or the notion that only the Prop does real time. They'll call Parallax on that and expect some real facts not fanboi talk. You'll have to sell them on other attributes.
I'm afraid so. The Prop1 has some weaknesses. These--both real and imagined--are easy enough to find discussed on internet forums and elsewhere. Hopefully, Prop2 will perfect or greatly expand upon the propeller concept. That seems to me job one. Next, I would work hard on building an extensive selection of languages, tools, code, and hardware. Make it obvious that the Prop is a viable option. Those things will tempt professionals, academics, and hobbyists to at least give it a look. Then, maybe they'll see what advantages it has. It's good that the Prop has C compilers now. But I see that as more a requirement than a selling point (ie, what chip doesn't have one?). The Prop is different; its strength. Build on that.
Parallax has a great resource in the community here; I'm always impressed by the intelligence and passion of its forum members whenever I visit. A huge advantage.
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Parallax has a great resource in the community here; I'm always impressed by the intelligence and passion of its forum members whenever I visit. A huge advantage.