TI MSP430 Microcontroller Gets Massive Portfolio Expansion

Sep 06, 2005 2 Replies

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Over 50 new devices, including cool new features such as 20-bit addressing and run current of only 200 µA/MIPS.


- Bill Giovino Executive Editor

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Bill Giovino wrote: > TI MSP430 Microcontroller Gets Massive Portfolio Expansion

Well, no, not just yet - but why let reality get in the way of a headline....?

For a better take on what is _really_ happening, you could look at:

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There you will see, that no, the F20xx does not have 20 bit addressing - why would the 6 announced parts, with 64KFlash, and so need the extended opcodes feature.

-jg

addressing

No, it's in the core.

Of course, the 2K flash parts won't need 20-bits of addressing (they don't need 13-bits either!), and I doubt if many embedded engineers will be slipped up by that.

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