Hi Charles,

Charles Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:49, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> > >
> > > Seeing as it's a 32 bit processor, it seems like something
> > > the Lego engineers could incorporate without any major
> > > hardware changes.
> 
> Is it an ARM9? Is it not an ARM7? I have not looked too hard. 

the LEGO FAQ says it's an ARM7, I mixed it up with ARM9.

> Some ARM7's like those SAM7 from Atmel are less then USD5 each,
> including all peripherals on-chip. Most of these have 
> no external bus and cannot support any memory expansion.

After some (re)search on the weekend I think the ATMEL AT91SAM7S256
is most likely, it has all that's needed and not much more.

It probably has a PIC to control motors and LCD,
the Handy Board 2 uses a similar design.


Cheers

Jürgen

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