[sdiy] Now what?!?! AVR, PIC, or Scenix SX?

[Rob B]

Well, so, I hear the Scenix just kick butt all over the PIC chips...

So, I try to go get some.. There is only a couple out there!

Then, I try to get a Scenix emulator..Well the Parallax SX-key looks like it
just sits in and watches what the chip is doing and reports it back to the
PC.. Its cheap anyway, which is nice.

So, if my investigation is correct, we have the following conclusions:

Scenix - Fast, cheap to emulate, hard to find, lots of IO.

PIC - Not so fast, a bit expensive to emulate, but cheap and easy to find.
Also, too, imho, there are too many variants.. so many its hard to figure
out which one you want.

Atmel - Not all that fast, fairly cheap, very cheap to emulate, and they are
all over! One thing though: if you are going by sheer mhz, they don't seem
that fast, unless they can do 1 operation per cycle.. If they are like the
PIC (1 operation every 4 cycles) then they will not be all that fast..

Let me know if I got it so far. ;) Im really pushing towards the Atmel right
now, only because there are a lot out there and its cheap to emulate. Plus,
lots and lots of IO..

Any comments? Additional info?

Rob