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Hello, After installing RL-ARM, I can't find the source code for TCP/IP stack. There're only the device drivers and some application code such as: http_cgi, telne, tftp... in ".../TcpNet/SCR", but no source code for the stack itself. RTX and Flash File System have source code files. Where can I find it? Thanks, Huy.
"We need 4 developers to use it, and $16K is hard to push up to management."
But what is the cost of having those developers sit idle...?
If they were field support guys, would they be expected to share a single car...?
ARM's stated aim in acquiring Keil was to ease the path for 8-bit users migrating to 32-bit.
While ~$4k might be common enough in the 32-bit marketplace, a lot of 8-bit users would consider it excessive...
"While ~$4k might be common enough in the 32-bit marketplace, a lot of 8-bit users would consider it excessive..."
In a not too distant past, when product prices were confortably high, engineering budgets were never a concern. But the economics of current embedded development are much more complex. My case is of a company that manufactures some 20K units/yr and saw a significant product market price reduction on every new family. We have invested over $50K in development systems in the 8032 era. Today, engineering costs must be taken into account for the product pricing, because a product lifetime is way shorter than the one decade of those times. In that scenario, a $25K investment in new tools have to be negotiated, instead of taken for granted.
It is so much so that it makes no sense to have many different platforms for different products anymore. With ARM uC at $8, we are migrating all our product lines to the same chip, even when it is obscenely overkill to do so, to leverage on production, tools and development time.