AVR-Chat

I agree.  I like to expand my horizons in my hobby and my job - It is 
nice when they are so related to each other! :)  For instance I thought 
that when Microchip came out with their 16 bit offerings they were "too 
little, too late".  But with their PIC24 line I've changed my mind.  
Those chips have replaced anything else that I do with a PIC, they are 
so cheap and have so much capability that I reach for them first now.  
ARM has been a constant backbone to embedded high-power stuff that I've 
been working with that too, but not been very happy with the Eclipse 
solutions and will probably go for for Crossworks.  I have some 
experience with IAR and am not all that happy with them, but the 
Crossworks guys have been easy to work with and very responsive, so 
there you go - "perception rules".  So many toys and so little time!!!

DLC

On 11/29/10 11:51 AM, David Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Philippe Habib wrote:
>    
>> It seems to me that if you've got all the power you need, you're
>> nowhere close to running out of flash and you own and know all of the
>> tools you need to work, you don't have the kind of volume that would
>> pay back the investment in a lower cost or otherwise better solution,
>> why change processors and start all over?
>>      
> One good answer is that if one is only doing embedded work for one's
> amusement then thats good enough excuse to expand one's horizons.
>
> No matter, its always good to have another tool in one's pocket.
>
> As for myself, I read these threads partly to expand horizons, partly
> because I anticipate a future task for which an AVR is inadequate.
>
> In the past when I have looked at ARM solutions many required a good bit
> of hand-holding to come out of RESET. Not all, but some. Having many
> vendors of similar parts is good for competition. But the results are
> not always good.
>
>    

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