Infiineon offer 140'C capable, 8 bit uC

There have been a few threads over time about higher temperature uC.

This news from Infineon on their XC866-HOT family is relevent - they 
claim to have 140'C operate, full spec, and 100K flash operations at 
140'C - price of  e1.80/10K also is not 'niche' pricing, and
could target system watchdog applications in the tough installations.

http://www.infineon.com/cgi-bin/ifx/portal/ep/contentView.do?channelId=-65777&prgId=&yearId=-103345&contentId=218471&programId=63268&pageTypeId=17226&contentType=NEWS&endIndex=5&quarterId=-103346&startIndex=0&paging=next&searchString=&channelPage=%2Fep%2Fchannel%2FnewsChannel.jsp

-jg

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:20:34 +1300, Jim Granville
<no.spam@designtools.maps.co.nz> wrote:

>There have been a few threads over time about higher temperature uC.
>
>This news from Infineon on their XC866-HOT family is relevent - they 
>claim to have 140'C operate, full spec, and 100K flash operations at 
>140'C - price of  e1.80/10K also is not 'niche' pricing, and
>could target system watchdog applications in the tough installations.
>
>http://www.infineon.com/cgi-bin/ifx/portal/ep/contentView.do?channelId=-65777&prgId=&yearId=-103345&contentId=218471&programId=63268&pageTypeId=17226&contentType=NEWS&endIndex=5&quarterId=-103346&startIndex=0&paging=next&searchString=&channelPage=%2Fep%2Fchannel%2FnewsChannel.jsp

I didn't read the link, but 140 C is good.  I've had an MSP430 running
well at about the same temperature -- just to see -- but I didn't ding
around seeing how well the flash would survive.  I figured that may be
a serious problem, especially if trying to erase and program at that
temperature.  There are times when running CPUs at higher temps is
desirable.

Thanks,
Jon