Re: 74HC123 and long pulse

On Sun, 10 May 2009 23:12:58 +0000, Nico Coesel wrote:

But... using a PIC is a really bad idea. I never was a fan of PIC
controllers based on what I've seen being made with PICs and the specs
from Microchip. Unfortunately one of my customers has a product for
which the PIC 16Fxxx firmware needs to be rewritten by me. Throwing
out the stock is just too expensive. The PIC processor's architecture
is even worse than I thought. Multiple memory banks, weak instruction
set. I need to jump through a lot of hoops to write C code for it and
work around the flaws in the hi-tech compiler. Can't even re-use
existing C code because pointers don't work well with multiple memory
banks. Having all data global is the most convenient. Altogether it
costs a lot of extra development time (=money). I start to wish they
had used an 8051! The PIC really is a dead-end around the next corner
if you want to get some serious work done.

You're comparing a PIC to a real CPU. This thread was comparing a PIC to
74-series logic. Do you actually need to use C (with pointers, relocatable
code etc) to write the firmware for a quad monostable?

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