??? 02/16/11 05:07 Modified: 02/16/11 06:45 Read: times |
#181112 - Re: ARM Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Neil said:
Vendor-independent build tools (based on GCC & Eclipse) are available for free anyhow so it costs the chip makers nothing to "give" (sic) those away anyhow. I see, kinda like SDCC/(insert you favourite front end here) but for more heavyweight-class cores.. Andy Neil said:
The important bit that Chipmakers give away is their specific debug support - which they can (and do) lock to their own proprietary hardware. No surprises there.. Andy Neil said:
Another key difference between ARM and 8051 is that there is ARM themselves behind the whole "ecosystem" - there is no corresponding overall "owner" of the 8051 architecture any more (Intel aren't interested). You know, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see desktop 'Archimedes version 2.0' PC's in most stores within five years time.. Didn't know Intel had completely abandoned the 8051 altogether. I thought they merely stopped producing it? |