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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Microchip MPU module
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| zeitfest Guru  Joined: 31/07/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 581 |
Interesting module from Microchip. 600 Mhz, 4 Gig, ethernet etc. |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10310 |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5089 |
About Microchip / Atmel I am not sure how it is down south, or far west... But the situation in Europe is that Microchip focusses on big customers in this time of component shortage. I work for a design house, designing for medium size customers, and customer base wide we are designing Microchip out (doing redesigns, because they do not service distribution and smaller customers, and even refuse direct contact. You can ony talk to their distributers, and these distributers can only inform you what is (or may be) coming, but do not have any control at all. Some competitors keep contact, and provide help. So these get designed in (AD/TI/NXP). Volhout Edited 2022-09-13 17:59 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Gee, technology is getting so SMALL and yet so powerful. An interesting module, but matherp has an extremely valid point on the price. But if you have a spare US$214,800 lying around simply to buy the hardware modules before you even START trying to port any code to it.....   Yeah, I think the smilie is apt. Dead in the water I'd say.Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| zeitfest Guru Joined: 31/07/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 581 |
Well ... $59.12 for one-offs, pricey but then again it is available and shipping ... not as bad as it could be. I haven't ordered for a while but MicrochipDirect was excellent to Aus, one time I ordered Thursday and micros were delivered from overseas next Tuesday early morning !!! Gobsmacked. |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5089 |
There was an ARM926 core (126MHz) in my PALM ZIRE organizer some 25 years ago. Interesting that that architecture is still alive in embedded systems... Edited 2022-09-14 23:10 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Yes, I order from MC Direct all the time when they had the chips, and their service was always excellent. No complaints on that. The text read TO ME as you have to make a MOQ(minimum order quantity) of 5000 units, costing about a quarter a million dollars..... I obviously read that wrong, as you found a one-off price, but even then, at $59... But it is quite a juicy module for that money to be fair. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| darthvader Regular Member  Joined: 31/01/2020 Location: FrancePosts: 87 |
From this page : microchip Buy Now Price, Any Volume 1-24 €58.34 25-99 €53.51 100+ €48.44 Estimated High-Volume Pricing 1000-4999 *€44.57 5000+ *€42.40 Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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vegipete Guru Joined: 29/01/2013 Location: CanadaPosts: 1132 |
This module might be a suitable brain for a CMM2.5, if someone were willing to figure out how to use it. There's an LCD driver module in it, which could perhaps be massaged like the Chromeart hardware in the STM32 to generate video output. There also appear to be 3 USB _host_ ports (keyboard, mouse and thumbdrive, maybe?) Ethernet too, for the really brave. Alas, I don't have the time to try, although maybe I'll get a module anyways to play with. Sigh, too many projects, too little time... Visit Vegipete's *Mite Library for cool programs. |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6283 |
The 'SAM9X60D1G Curiosity Evaluation Kit' is available for 120USD. That would be a good starting point for experimenting but not for me at that price... VK7JH MMedit |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
I'm just waiting to see the first port of DOOM to it. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5089 |
Just to bring things in perspective: The ARM 926 in this module is 1.1DMIPS/MHz, at 600MHz that is 660 DMIPS. The ARM Cortex M7 in the CMM2 is 2.31DMIPS/MHz, at 480MHz that is 1108 DMIPS. If you use this module on a CMM2.5 it will be roughly half as fast. Regards, Volhout side note: Compared to a picomite (ARM M0+) at 0.99DMIPD/MHz (currently 378MHz), it will be 2x as fast at the picomite. Edited 2022-09-16 18:29 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| vegipete Guru Joined: 29/01/2013 Location: CanadaPosts: 1132 |
Thank you for the numbers, you just saved me 60-70-80 odd dollars. :-) Visit Vegipete's *Mite Library for cool programs. |
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