Re: Is it advisable to use the RCM6700 in new designs?

You will probably get as many opinions as there are members of this group on whether to use the RCM67xx modules in new designs. My opinion is that you should use them if they meet your requirements. My company continues to use RCM2000 modules that were designed into our products in 2001. For new products today on one of our product lines, we use the RCM6750. 
 

 There is probably no one reason for the drop-off in group traffic. But I suspect a big factor is the company that bought Z-World/Rabbit Semi a few years ago, Digi (digi.com). Since then, there appears to be much less advertising of the Rabbit, Rabbit products are not always easy to find on the Digi website, and the Rabbit products are no longer present at embedded trade shows.
 

 In addition, the limited memory available on Rabbit modules has forced many to move to different platforms. The 2000 and 3000 series are fixed at 512k max of program space. I have many projects where the program memory is full and I can no longer add new features without removing some other feature. In a number of those cases we have moved to the RCM6700 line, because it has double the memory space. But eventually it too will fill up, and there have been no new Rabbit products released since the buyout. There also have been no upgrades, or improvements to the development suite. I don't know what's going on at Digi with the Rabbit product line, but I've seen no evidence to indicate they are doing anything with it other than selling the current products.
 

 So I see it as a combination of no new users along with existing users moving to other products as to why the traffic on this group is down.
 

 Steve