On Jul 17, 11:33 am, "John Moore" <nos...@nodomain.com> wrote:
> I'm new to the embedded world of development. I've noticed two
> major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers. The simpler (relative low
> complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based
> microcontrollers. Are there more than these two major microcontrollers on
> the market that have multiple vendors? The AVR looks big but it looks as
> though Atmel is the only provider. I guess there is the x86 that Intel and
> AMD provide.
MIPS competes with ARM, ARM has most of the cellphone market, MIPS has
the routers, set top boxes, which the new ARM cortex is directly
trying to compete with
Reply by Chris Hills●July 17, 20072007-07-17
In article <139q31e3fubi927@corp.supernews.com>, John Moore
<nospam@nodomain.com> writes
>I'm new to the embedded world of development. I've noticed two
>major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers. The simpler (relative low
>complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based
>microcontrollers. Are there more than these two major microcontrollers on
>the market that have multiple vendors? The AVR looks big but it looks as
>though Atmel is the only provider. I guess there is the x86 that Intel and
>AMD provide.
X85 and AMD are not in the embedded space really.
There are all the Freescale parts
Most of the worlds telecoms runs on PowerPC chips (NOT x86-PC)
Just have a look at Renesas, Samsung, Texac, Toshiba, ST, infineon, NXP,
National, NEC, Zilog, OKI etc etc
I think that 8051 and ARM are the two largest general purpose parts but
PIC's and AVR are widely used. Some parts are less widely used but used
in much larger numbers the NEC parts for example.
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Reply by Jim Granville●July 17, 20072007-07-17
Jim Stewart wrote:
> John Moore wrote:
>
>> I'm new to the embedded world of development. I've noticed two
>> major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers. The simpler (relative
>> low complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based
>> microcontrollers. Are there more than these two major
>> microcontrollers on the market that have multiple vendors? The AVR
>> looks big but it looks as though Atmel is the only provider. I guess
>> there is the x86 that Intel and AMD provide.
>
>
> My company is still doing a good business
> selling x86 DOS controllers. Having a simple,
> cheap board with a DOS that boots in 500ms
> is useful for many of our customers.
>
> Intel and and AMD are out of the x86 embedded
> market, but RDC in Taiwan makes some excellent
> x86 chips.
Do RDC have any plans to release a FLASH x86 variant as
a microcontroller ?
-jg
Reply by Jim Stewart●July 17, 20072007-07-17
John Moore wrote:
> I'm new to the embedded world of development. I've noticed two
> major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers. The simpler (relative low
> complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based
> microcontrollers. Are there more than these two major microcontrollers on
> the market that have multiple vendors? The AVR looks big but it looks as
> though Atmel is the only provider. I guess there is the x86 that Intel and
> AMD provide.
My company is still doing a good business
selling x86 DOS controllers. Having a simple,
cheap board with a DOS that boots in 500ms
is useful for many of our customers.
Intel and and AMD are out of the x86 embedded
market, but RDC in Taiwan makes some excellent
x86 chips.
Reply by John Moore●July 17, 20072007-07-17
I'm new to the embedded world of development. I've noticed two
major/multi-vendor types of microcontrollers. The simpler (relative low
complexity) MCS-51 microcontrollers and the more complex ARM based
microcontrollers. Are there more than these two major microcontrollers on
the market that have multiple vendors? The AVR looks big but it looks as
though Atmel is the only provider. I guess there is the x86 that Intel and
AMD provide.