AVR-Chat

I can't argue with anything you're saying.  If I were making a rational
choice of processors purely on the merits, I'd go AVR.  I work mostly with
PICs because my clients mostly have used them in the past and want to stick
with what they know and for the most part, people like to make use of the
large amount of code I can re-use instead of paying me to rewrite it for a
new compiler and micro.

The memory map on PICs isn't as bad as it used to be, and using a high level
language I'm pretty much isolated from it anyway.



-----Original Message-----
From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of John Samperi
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:16 PM
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] AVR & Automation

At 07:32 AM 17/06/2008, you wrote:
>The AVR feature set on the part
>I used is pretty much available on a PIC with small differences.

Like a memory map that looks like Swiss cheese for the Pic? :-)
And if it were made of Swiss cheese would not be enough for a mouse.

Lets see 16F876 vs a Mega88...they both run at 20MHz...except that
the PIC has a div by 4 in the clock cct.

Pic has <400bytes of fragmented ram, the m88 has 1K of linear ram.

Pic from $7-$9 At Digikey for a pdip, m88 at about half that....

I think I would stick with a M88, but I'm biased :-)


Regards

John Samperi

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