Field 31st Annual Microprocessor Directory

摘要

Welcome to the 31st annual EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Di-rectory. The number of companies and devices the directory lists continues to grow and change. The size of this year's table of devices has grown more than 25% from last year's. Also, despite the fact that a number of companies have disappeared from the list, the number of companies participating in this year's directory has still grown by 10%. So what? Should this growth and change in the companies and devices the directory lists mean anything to you? One thing to note is that this year's directory has experienced more company and product-line changes than the previous few years. One significant type of change is that more companies are publicly offering software-programmable processors. To clarify this fact, not every company that sells processor products decides to participate in the directory. One reason for not participating is that the companies are selling their processors only to specific customers and are not yet publicly offering those products. Some of the new companies participating in this year's directory have recently begun making their processors available to the engineering public.