large microprocessors?

On 2013-02-08, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.embedtronics.fi> writes:
>> Freescale Kinetis X claims to have up to 4 MB FLASH and 512 kB SRAM.
>
> Thanks, this is kind of interesting.  It was announced in 2011 but
> doesn't appear to have actually shipped.  There is some marketing stuff
> for it on freescale.com but other stuff seems to have been taken down.
> I wonder if the chip was cancelled.

It's been postponed, probably till 2014.  Sad.

  -jm

On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:06:30 -0500, Walter Banks wrote:
> In the small processors the amount of RAM requirements for code compiled
> with a good compiler is typically 16% of ROM and for assembler typically
> 20%. When we were doing studies on this a few years ago these numbers
> were remarkably constant.
> 
> (Before someone says it is application dependent, it is but so is the
> selection of the processor application dependent) On the larger
> processors these numbers don't hold as well.

OK, but how broad was your sample? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if you 
had access to a wide selection of code samples (automotive, medical, data 
acquisition, white goods, audio, etc.). Was it as varied as that?