Re: 32-bit AVR

Ville Voipio wrote:
> 
> "Ulf Samuelsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Atmel has had single die flash ARMs for a long time, but
> > these are ASICs and not standard products...
> > Single die flash + ARM standard products are coming ...
> 
> I hope you can make the single-die products with rather small
> power consumption! We are currently using AT91R40008 +
> AM29DL163 combination and would like to migrate to a single-chip
> (not necessarily single-die) solution. However the Atmel
> flash seems to draw huge amounts of current compared to the
> AMD one. The processor itself is not very hungry.
> 
> - Ville

The Intel and Atmel flash parts do consume a lot of current.  The AMD
parts are much less, both active and standby.  Our design uses the OKI
ARM chip with internal flash for its own use and we also need external
flash for the DSP and FPGAs.  Since no one is executing from this flash
we can use a NAND flash part.  Turns out this is even lower power not to
mention much lower cost.  So consider the OKI ARM chip and if you need
more than 512 KB flash, a NAND flash part is ideal.  

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