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Paint-by-number ASSP

If we could have our druthers, we'd like ASSPs for everything. Marketing would come in and tell us they needed a combo camera-phone-studfinder-laserlevel, and we'd say "No Problem, you'll have it by next Wednesday." Then, we'd grab our magic universal ASSP catalog, turn to page 13,562, and order up the low-power version of the CCPSLL40-LP (the 40nm low-power combo camera-phone-studfinder-laserlevel chip.) It would come with the eval board, of course, and by two hours after FedEx dropped off the package, we'd have our prototype hooked up to a CCD camera and GSM module, and we'd be e-mailing photos to ourselves (via 3G, of course) of a laser rectangle projected on the wall where the painting would hang, with the stud locations identified and overlayed for the contractor.

Now we can take the next couple of days to play golf and call marketing in on Tuesday (a day early, for good measure) for their demo.