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vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: Romania Posts: 1697	Posted: 09:04pm 27 Feb 2012         Olimex said   Vasi, AVR Mega are obsolete now, even Arduino Due ARM9 board will get obsolete until they release it.[/quote] You know that a microcontroller become widely used if is cheap, it have a big community of adopters and if continue to be produced after others are long gone. And I'm talking about hobby zone (that zone from where only component manufacturers get some benefits). [quote]In March we will launch the super-duper Cortex M4 168 Mhz STM32F407ZGT6 which have 1MB Flash and 196K RAM in Arduino compatible layout for EURO 30 retail. There is interest in few developers from Maple community who are ready to implement the library support, there is already bootloader for F4, by end of March this board will be for sale and it outperforms Mega, Due, probably Tre too [/quote] Nice to have, but an avalanche of boards can be risky. You also know that a board needs time to be promoted and supported and you must stick with it. Unfortunately for the industry, the home user's needs are not rising at the same speed of technology advance. But I know you target mainly professionals - they always need that board yesterday. [quote]Cortex M4 have floating points and F4 is really powerful, Arduino team problem is that they too much follow Atmel and didn't look around what else is available when they decided to move to more powerful hardware Maybe the community of Arduino is not prepared yet to leave ATmegas... I think they will continue to grow future generations of engineers or at least hobbyists using ATmegas and then ARM (there are still users of 8051 and I also want to score it for my "portfolio"). They are preparing mainly ATMEL users (and I think this is the first major effect in working with Arduino and I think also Microchip finally realized that). In my opinion, an ATMEL user is better prepared to move to any ARM from the market due to the very similar development chain. Anyway, a Cortex M4 can be great for RepRap project (see? I'm also not a good target ).Edited by vasi 2012-02-29 Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang