embedded 802.11b?

i realize i'm still far away from being able to develop anything of such high level, but with bluetooth seemingly dead on arival for non mass-production devices (huge development costs, doesnt build upon existing standards) and the few solutions which were being promissed getting latter by the day (national cp3000), 802.11b seems to be becoming a more and more viable alternative. costs for complete 802.11b pcmcia cards are dirt cheap, i cant imagine actual cost of silicon is that much to add to an existing processor.

are there any plans for micro's with 802.11b built in (minus PHY)? it'd be much easier to program, have massively better performance around the board and all that good stuff.

matt

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Myren
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Motorola are producing microcontrollers with on-chip 802.15.4 (ZigBee) but 802.11b/g is a bit of a stretch.

Microcontroller manufacturers have always put network connectivity very low on their priority list, for example microcontrollers with on-chip Ethernet are only just starting to emerge, even though the standard has been around a very long time.

Jeremy Bentham Iosoft Ltd.

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Jeremy Bentham

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