Is it advisable to use the RCM6700 in new designs?
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Howdy Everybody: Is it advisable to use the RCM6700 and RCM6710 in new designs? I'm getting to be an older electronics engineer, but I can still lean new tricks. :-) I have several (about10) ageing (10-12 years old) circuit board designs based on the Motorola (Freescale) MC68HC11F1 16MHz 8Bit Microcontroller. I need to update these designs because the HC11 is being discontinued. I would like to get another 10+ years on my updated circuit board designs... In this design refresh cycle, I need to maintain customer level reverse compatibility, but also I am looking to add/expand the existing feature set. Things like adding TCP/IP (Ethernet / Web) options, vastly more battery backed ram, considerably more CPU horse power, etc... I spent the weekend reviewing every document on the Rabbit 6000, Dynamic C 10, and the modules themselves I could find. The RCM6700 and RCM6710 almost exactly matches my wish list. The price is right in my budget ($35 base / $45 with Ethernet). The availability at Digikey and Mouse look good (100 to 200 units per month). Actually, the only thing that has me worried is this discussion group. It used to host traffic in the 500 to 700 messages per month range. Now it's in the 10 per month range. What happened? Are you guys abandoning the Rabbit platform for another? Sorry for being so verbose... I have a hard time restraining myself to short messages. I'm not a child of the text messaging age, more like the inter-office paper memo age... Matthew T. Linehan American LED-gible Engineering www.ledgible.com www.ledandon.com