TI MSP430 Microcontroller Gets Massive Portfolio Expansion

http://microcontroller.com/news/ti_msp430_50newdevices.asp

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

- Bill Giovino
   Executive Editor
   http://Microcontroller.com

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....?

> http://microcontroller.com/news/ti_msp430_50newdevices.asp
> 
> Over 50 new devices, including cool new features such as 20-bit addressing
> and run current of only 200 �A/MIPS.

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

http://focus.ti.com/docs/pr/pressrelease.jhtml?prelId=sc05153

  There you will see, that no, the F20xx does not have 20 bit
addressing - why would the 6 announced parts, with <= 2K of flash,
need 20 bit address mode ?
  The 20 bit is comming in a new FG series, that will have > 64KFlash,
and so need the extended opcodes feature.

-jg

"Jim Granville" <no.spam@designtools.co.nz> wrote in message
news:431d4b85$1@clear.net.nz...
> 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....?
>
> > http://microcontroller.com/news/ti_msp430_50newdevices.asp
> >
> > Over 50 new devices, including cool new features such as 20-bit
addressing
> > and run current of only 200 &#4294967295;A/MIPS.
>
> For a better take on what is _really_ happening, you could look at:
>
> http://focus.ti.com/docs/pr/pressrelease.jhtml?prelId=sc05153
>
>   There you will see, that no, the F20xx does not have 20 bit
> addressing - why would the 6 announced parts, with <= 2K of flash,
> need 20 bit address mode ?
>   The 20 bit is comming in a new FG series, that will have > 64KFlash,
> and so need the extended opcodes feature.

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.