..in response to message #26 Posted by Eric Smith on 22 Sept 2011, 5:45 p.m.,
..in response to message #25 by uhmgawa
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This is what makes it particularly bizarre that the 15C LE has moved to SMT assembly.
I still boggle why following up directly to a thread merely a
month old in this forum is verboten, but anyway..
I finally heard back from Atmel (through their 3rd party die
reseller) who declined to quote our bid on the at91sam7l128
citing the device in die form was either in, or will soon
be EOL. I speculate that was the primary motivation for
the board layout change to accommodate the 128 lqfp in the
new ARM voyagers.
Not too surprising as the sam7 is getting rather long in the
tooth and there hasn't been any follow on AFAICT to either
l64/l128 version. Also other more recent vendor designs exist
with improved performance/power capability. Yet despite its age
the sam7l appears to still have some competitive differential
particularly given its price point.