Thank you for your recent service request (1-310643355) concerning problems with the MCF52235 reference manual. We appreciate your comments and thank you for alerting us to the issues you mentioned. Furthermore, we apologize for the inconvenience that these issues have caused you. We are aware of some inconsistencies and errors in the 52235 reference manual, and devote considerable internal effort to fixing these errors.
Customer feedback, such as yours, is invaluable in helping us identify and solve the inconsistencies. The presence of these inconsistencies is one reason why the manual is still labeled "preliminary". The next reference manual revision will include numerous fixes that will address at least some of your concerns. For example, we are in the process of making sure that Appendix A (memory map) and the body of the reference manul are consistent. The interrupt source tables (15-13 and 15-14) have also been updated. The current
Please look for the new revision of the manual (Rev 2) on our external Web site at the end of August 2006.
Dear Freescale Team
Although MCF52235 is a very promising device, it is in fact very hard and unproductive start a design with such Reference Manual. It is in fact very very poor. Instead of add resources to new designs, we spend time trying to guess some specs. We believe the hardest part, you have made: the chip...