Re: what uC do you prefer?

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:34:48 GMT, "Fox one! Fox one!" <asd@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


<feebo> wrote in message news:e632a3l4j4620mg38bs10mnv9vqsquske3@xxxxxxxxxx
So with the plethora of micro-controllers out there, which do you
use/prefer and why?

I use PICs pretty much exclusively but I just had a look at ATMELs
range - to be honest, I don't see any reason to change from what I
know - am I missing anything?

Do all uCs use harvard architecture? Sometimes it would be nuice to
have data available as bytes without having to wrap it in code and
form tables. Tonight I scared myself - I caught myself googling
"microcontroller z80 core" eek!

For hobby purposes, if you can write in C, I'd go AVR because of
avrgcc/avrlib. I've used commercial compilers for MSP430 and PIC and IMHO,
avrgcc/avrlib is excellent. I haven't used PICs for a while but I believe
the only 'free' C compiler worth using (HiTech PIC C Lite) is code size
limited to 2K... You can forget doing anything cool like TCP/IP with that!
Also on freertos.org the AVR seems to kill the PIC for speed. By all means
use the PICs simple instruction set to learn how to use micrcontrollers,
then learn C and go to AVR.


I did look at AVR stuff last night but they dodn't offer much over the
PIC that we currently use heavilly in our controller designs. - did I
miss something?

I only ever write assembler - control freak that I am :o)
.

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