Posted on May 17, 2011 at 12:56First, sorry for the previous ''harsh'' tone I used in my first post.
STOne-32, thanks for your reply. I've looked at various sites, and you seemed right: most of the roadmaps are from proprietary core, and not licensed cores. [I guess the corect term is licensed, and using ''open'' will make the guys at opencores.org unhappy]
However, Atmel does a fantastic job at keeping us savvy about their ARM- based SAM series, and microchip PIC32 (RISC) used to list future products.
My belief is that I need a NDA with every damn MCU manufacturer on this planet to be an effective engineer. I also believe that every damn manufacturer on this planet knows it is trivial to get other's roadmap if it is given to anybody wishing to sign the NDA (I know, legal implication here, but the whole concept of industrial spying [wich is the prime basis to require NDAs]is based on that).
Also, a MCU takes time to design (am I right???). How much? 12 months? Of this time, how much time is the design frozen to any changes? If ST announce a new MCU complete with datasheet say, 1-2 months before release, would competitor be able to catch up on a klever idea? Is there not a ''safe'' margin to release info?
My plea for a openly available, up-front-no-hassles-or-boring-NDAs, roadmap, is simply to have some advance infos. I do not want to know the roadmap for the next 2 years, simply know what you will release in the next months.
-Relaxe
