Re: Purchase microcontroller dev. kit


Nico Coesel wrote:
"linnix" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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

Yeap, as usual.


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.

If you take this approach, you would never do anything. There is
always something better coming up. May I ask how many actual designs
have you done?

Countless with a delivery date set to yesterday.


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.

Why do you think the OP needs a 32 bits DSP? Well written C codes
should not have much problem moving between 8051, PIC or AVR.

Funny to see how '32 bit DSP' works like a red flag on a bull on some
people. Take a deep breath and read again. The range of controllers I
suggested goes from less than 16 pins to over 256 pins.

Nothing wrong with those you suggested. But 8051, PIC and AVR are
still in many microcontroller designs, which you are telling people to
ignore.


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