Correct to the greatest degree Kai. And the "smaller" packages can be equipped with MANY more pins. I am working right now with a Cygnal C8051F020. It is in a 100 pin TQFP. That is about 1/5 the size of a 40 pin DIP and has 64 port I/Os plus some dedicated I/Os for analog, power, ground, clocking, reset and JTAG port.

Michael Karas

PS....with the wonderful Cygnal JTAG support for ISP programming AND hardware assisted debug hardware you can even get a eval board for prototyping like I show here.

Michael Karas