I don't, and I really haven't been paying too much attention to MCU product lines as of late. I thought chips with LCD drivers and memory interfaces were pretty common now.
From what I can tell, there's budget application processors sporting Cortex A5s (telechips, mediatek) priced right around the $5 mark.
I'm thinking I could easily turn that into VGA or HDMI output onto a PC monitor...
Still, P2, if it comes, could do that with component output and no external ICs, which would be very nice...
Yes, P2 would still compete.
I'm not sure how the FTDI part would manage VGA/HDMI ? - as it seems display-list based and so may not give a time-linear raster that VGA needs. (It may be active-LCD only.)
Let us know what you find.
512K holds 800x600x8bit, which is fairly low resolution these days, so the P2 still needs external memory to do high resolutions, and will it have HDMI differential transmitters with 8b/10b encoding???
Memory has always been the weak point of the Prop design, and at 180 nm that will continue with the P2. So I'm not sure how I see that it is competitive in the general marketplace, the DIY community could be a different story, but that is a small market and now quite fragmented.
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I don't, and I really haven't been paying too much attention to MCU product lines as of late. I thought chips with LCD drivers and memory interfaces were pretty common now.
From what I can tell, there's budget application processors sporting Cortex A5s (telechips, mediatek) priced right around the $5 mark.
I'm thinking I could easily turn that into VGA or HDMI output onto a PC monitor...
Still, P2, if it comes, could do that with component output and no external ICs, which would be very nice...
Yes, P2 would still compete.
I'm not sure how the FTDI part would manage VGA/HDMI ? - as it seems display-list based and so may not give a time-linear raster that VGA needs. (It may be active-LCD only.)
Let us know what you find.
Memory has always been the weak point of the Prop design, and at 180 nm that will continue with the P2. So I'm not sure how I see that it is competitive in the general marketplace, the DIY community could be a different story, but that is a small market and now quite fragmented.