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Tim Wescott
- Jan 1, 1970
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I am currently working with a client who is designing a PIC
microprocessor into his system. It may be too late to change, but I am
being reminded of all the drawbacks to writing software for the PIC.
I heard from a committed PIC booster that "yes, the architecture sucks
for programming, but the PIC never has delivery problems". Choosing a
processor that my client couldn't get down the road would trump any pain
I may experience with less than beautiful code.
Does anyone have experience with alternatives to the PIC (and 8051
derivatives) that show that this is not a problem? The ones that come
to my mind the soonest are the AVR and the MSP430xxx lines, although I'm
sure that there are German and Japanese alternatives as well. The story
I heard about delivery problems was specifically about "Atmel doesn't
understand that it's single-source".
Thanks in advance.
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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
Posting from Google? See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" came out in April.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html
microprocessor into his system. It may be too late to change, but I am
being reminded of all the drawbacks to writing software for the PIC.
I heard from a committed PIC booster that "yes, the architecture sucks
for programming, but the PIC never has delivery problems". Choosing a
processor that my client couldn't get down the road would trump any pain
I may experience with less than beautiful code.
Does anyone have experience with alternatives to the PIC (and 8051
derivatives) that show that this is not a problem? The ones that come
to my mind the soonest are the AVR and the MSP430xxx lines, although I'm
sure that there are German and Japanese alternatives as well. The story
I heard about delivery problems was specifically about "Atmel doesn't
understand that it's single-source".
Thanks in advance.
--
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
Posting from Google? See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" came out in April.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html