Content originally posted in LPCWare by mark03 on Fri Oct 19 12:19:43 MST 2012
tha,
I wondered if that might be the case, but it isn't entirely clear from the datasheet. For one thing, claiming that there is a "DC-to-DC converter" on the chip is pretty strange. Surely they mean a linear regular instead? I don't think they have an inductor on the die :)
In any case, I would really have appreciated confirmation from an actual NXP representative. I find it astonishing that they would set up a forum like this and then not answer such obvious, simple, and direct questions. Compare this to the Energy Micro forums, where an employee responds to each question within a day, usually less. (And some of those questions are clueless newbies who you could at least imagine ignoring or pointing to the user's guide.) NXP really needs to up their game, otherwise as soon as a comparable M4F solution is available from a mfg with better customer support, I won't look back.
The many posts here pointing out mistakes in the official libraries, and typos in the documentation, almost always go without any acknowledgement from NXP. If they can't be bothered to have one or two employees monitor the forums, how much effort do you think they're actually spending to fix those bugs/typos/errata? This does not bode well for the future of their parts.
(Case in point: Look at the posts by user "gregd". Carefully written, well informed, and deserving of a response from NXP, yet they usually get zero replies. There is no conceivable excuse for this.)
