Appreciate the confirmation. Outside embedded, one use for these people aren't appreciating is offloading interrupts or security checks of I/O devices. Along with sensors/mgmt stuff you can trust more. Cost being so low let's one do physical partitioning of domains instead of software.
Also, thanks for the mention of Cortex-R as I hadn't heard of it. A quick glance at their description looks good. About $8 on low end to $50 on high-end. Getting quite cheap indeed for what 8-bits would be required for. Way cheaper than the old champ (RCA 1802 MCU) is today ($150 w/ 1k units).
Ok. So, I'll probably not have to go to 8-bit or drop large $$$ if I take-on certain projects. Good to know. Dirt cheap chips with large ecosystem, lock-step, real-time, and MPU's... it's like the golden era in tech for embedded start-ups, eh? :)
Also, thanks for the mention of Cortex-R as I hadn't heard of it. A quick glance at their description looks good. About $8 on low end to $50 on high-end. Getting quite cheap indeed for what 8-bits would be required for. Way cheaper than the old champ (RCA 1802 MCU) is today ($150 w/ 1k units).
http://www.intersil.com/content/intersil/en/products/space-a...
Ok. So, I'll probably not have to go to 8-bit or drop large $$$ if I take-on certain projects. Good to know. Dirt cheap chips with large ecosystem, lock-step, real-time, and MPU's... it's like the golden era in tech for embedded start-ups, eh? :)