From: fabien.chouteau@gmail.com
Subject: Re: ANN: Cortex GNAT RTS 2018-07-15
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 03:21:11 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-07-17T03:21:11-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <957dde55-5867-4438-9971-81be32460bde@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1pup590.fsf@nightsong.com>
On Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 11:43:09 AM UTC+2, Paul Rubin wrote:
> fabien chouteau writes:
> > STMicro is pushing a lot in the direction of "smartphone like user
> > interfaces" for their micro-controller. I think the M7 is part of that
> > strategy.
>
> But why not use a smartphone chip if you want a smartphone UI? You can
> get a complete Raspberry Pi Zero for less than the cost of an M7 CPU all
> by itself.
Power consumption, cost at lower volume, complexity of the hardware, ruggedness, smaller software.
I agree that with M7 at 700MHz the line between Cortex-A and Cortex-M is very thin.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-15 19:41 ANN: Cortex GNAT RTS 2018-07-15 Simon Wright
2018-07-15 21:53 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-16 8:53 ` fabien.chouteau
2018-07-16 11:56 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-27 9:07 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-27 10:13 ` fabien.chouteau
2018-07-27 20:20 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-27 20:51 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-28 11:18 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-16 14:56 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-17 2:14 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-17 8:27 ` fabien.chouteau
2018-07-17 9:43 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-17 10:21 ` fabien.chouteau [this message]
2018-07-17 13:14 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-17 19:46 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-18 0:59 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-18 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-18 8:29 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-18 11:31 ` Tero Koskinen
2018-07-18 21:52 ` Paul Rubin
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