AVR-Chat

On 2010-09-25 08:59, englsprogeny1 wrote:
> I love AVR processors.  Unfortunately, there seems to be a shortage of parts.
> This is frustrating!  Should we stop developing using AVR?  I can't imagine what I would do if I needed parts for production.

I can only think of two reasons:
[1] Atmel does not have a very high production capacity.
[2] Someone has engineered them into some really high-volume products 
and they are "on allocation".  (is that the excuse you're getting?)

> I don't like PIC ( I don't know why... but just don't).  Still, I'm thinking maybe I should change over to them.

Unbelievably baroque architecture from the 1960s/1970s.  Rumour has it 
that the original "PIC" was a "Peripheral Interface Controller" (that 
General Instruments, later Microchip, bought rights to) for some 
mainframe computer.  Going by the published instruction set, I think 
it was originally designed to be built as cheap as possible with a 
minimum gate count - gates in those days were either discrete 
components or small-scale ICs (like 7400s and the like).

-- fireweaver