[ECOS] JFFS2 filesystem and eCos code on the same chip?

[Peter Vandenabeele]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:52:34AM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
[...]
> I'm not sure I'd make that generalisation. XIP is an obvious way to reduce 
> costs in final production boards for applications where performance isn't 
> critical (assuming it's slower, which it isn't always).

And reduce power, which is sometimes more important for mobile apps. Flash 
consumes much less power than *DRAM, because *DRAM needs permanent refresh 
cycles, even when the processor goes in sleep mode. The alternative is to 
use SRAM in low power apps, but that is more expensive again.

Peter

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