Again...more ram!

I have developed a board with the LM3S6569, I think this is a great little device. However it's application base is limited by the amount of RAM. I think this device with 512k or more ram and 64kb flash would be just right. External SPI flash is reasonably cheap and fast enough to swap code in and out of ram. The current amount of ram limits network stack performance...

..or, of course, make a device with an external bus... I think a generic device with some of the I/O mappable to external address space would be a good move...

I actually don't use most of the peripherals for the specific functions I'm really just using it as an embedded ethernet device and using the I/O pins for some external SRAM would be very good. Of course I could do this in software but the speed of this would limit it's usefulness.

Just a thought.

Liam Redmond.