Talk:Freescale 683XX

Article confuses CPU32 with MC683xx family
This article confuses the CPU32 embedded processor core with the MC683xx family of embedded microcontrollers. Strictly speaking, the CPU32 is only a processor core, not a complete microcontroller. Furthermore, while some MC683xx microcontrollers use the CPU32 core, others, such as the MC68302 family and the MC68306, use the 68EC000 core. --Colin Douglas Howell 07:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I have now fixed this, renaming the article and mentioning both processor cores used in the MC683xx family. The CPU32 processor core may still deserve a separate article focusing on its unique features. --Colin Douglas Howell 17:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * were/are there any implementations of CPU32 outside the MC683xx line of parts? if not, CPU32 could remain as a subsection of the 683xx page.  I do recall a MC683xx part based on the 68HC000, although I cannot recall the exact model number at the present.  --Aaron J. Grier
 * I remember the goal of CPU32 was that it was a licensable core, and I was working at Delco Electronics (now Delphi Corporation) at the time that the 68332 was designed for Delco for use in the body controller for the late 80s/early 90s Corvette. 4 of the TPU lines handled the anti lock braking. I don't believe that any of the 68332 were fabricated in Kokomo. Almost all of the microprocessors that were made at that fab were 6805 and 68HC11 based chips for engine computers (the fab also made a lot of analog chips for use in the other products they made). The single chip microprocessors inside radios (or any J1850 data bus application) were mostly TMS370 (for the J1850) To get the design costs down, Delco had an exclusive on the 68332 for several years (one could only get datasheets if you worked at Delco), but now it is a readily available chip. It would not surprise me that some of the other implementations stayed proprietary and thus you're unaware of them. Tangurena (talk) 00:52, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

References?
If may be interesting... Cisco 1600R series uses an MC68360 @ 33MHz ... 87.19.41.76 (talk) 17:43, 22 June 2022 (UTC)