Looking forward to seeing the board design! It will be a great way to get going with these chips without that significant eval board cost.
Also programming the Flash is easy, since it supports serial programming (I have the RX debug tool, but it's nice to have a simple UART way to load the Flash too).
I have already seen it but I would not say it is standard. All MCUs which I have seen personally and professionaly in recent years were packet on reels, not in trays. I am not sure how much MCUs ship in trays nowadays.
How good is the toolchain and software support in general for these compared to ARM? I almost used them in a project, but decided to go with a Cortex-M MCU and external ADC instead.
