Re: Purchase microcontroller dev. kit

Donald <donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nico Coesel wrote:

mrdarrett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Nico Coesel wrote:

ydoubleuz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Hi all,

I am new to this and i hope to purchase a development kit for dev.
microcontrollers. Due to the numerous varieties available in the
market, i am lost as where i should start and what stuffs to look out
for when purchasing these kits.

Whatever you buy, make sure the microcontroller has one addressing
space (no 8051, no AVR, no PIC) if you want to keep your code
portable. You wouldn't be the first developer who has found the
platform that looked so promising in the past turns out to be a
deadlock.


No 8051, no AVR, no PIC? What *would* you recommend, then? ;-)


Hitachi/Renesas H8 / H8S, Texas Instruments MSP430, Analog Devices
Blackfin DSP.


Oh crap, now you did IT !!!

The religous war about my CPU is better than your CPU is going to start.

No not at all. Look at the big picture here. Its not the CPU that
matters, its where you want to go in the future that matters!

A choice for a CPU should be driven by the question: "What if I want
to move to a different platform". With some platforms the answer to
this question is: "throw away everything you wrote and start over". So
a choice for a platform should be made with great care.

There is NO best processor, this is too small or too large, but you will
learn this for yourself.

That's exactly why I listed a general purpose microcontroller series,
a micropower series and a full blown 300+ MHz 32 bit DSP with MMU
capable of running a genuine OS like Linux. However, generic C code
written for one, can be moved to the other.

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