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Subject: A better HW match for Ada power?
From: darek <darek.maksimiuk@gmail.com>
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Hi All,
 Some time ago Infineon has introduced a new family of microcontrollers for automotive applications [1]. One of the chips is available on a development board called "ShieldBuddy" which should generate some attention among hobbyists [2][2a].

Compare to the STM32Fxx -based devices this piece of HW is rather expensive (EUR 120 with taxes)  but you have a silicon solution design for safety applications [3] (other dev kits with the TriCore CPUs  are more expensive). 

It comes with the whole toolchain (gcc 4.6.4, c, c++) and it is supported by the ArduinoIDE with a specialised multi-core extension (more [4]). 

Probably without talking to Infineon there is a slim chance to get Ada support in their gcc. 

What do you think about it? 
Cheers,
  Darek 

P.S. I got this board some time ago but did not have enough time to dive into it ... 

P.P.S. The is also a version of the chip (TC264DA) with the hardware FFT-engine. 

[1] http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/microcontroller/32-bit-tricore-tm-microcontroller/aurix-tm-family/channel.html?channel=db3a30433727a44301372b2eefbb48d9

[2]  http://www.hitex.co.uk/index.php?id=3650
[2a] https://www.ehitex.de/starter-kits/fuer-aurix/2535/hitex-shieldbuddytc275-aurix-powered-arduino-uno-r3-hardware-compatible-platform?c=33

[3] TC275A -http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/microcontroller/32-bit-tricore-tm-microcontroller/aurix-tm-family/aurix-tm-family-%2013-tc27xt/channel.html?channel=db3a30433cfb5caa013d01df64d92edc
[4] http://aurduino.boards.net