AVR-Chat

At 10:10 AM 12/21/2004, Graham Davies wrote:



>--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "David Jones" <david.jones@s...>
>wrote:
>
> > Regardless of what the AVR
> > Zealots think, the AVR's
> > are not "WAY" better than
> > the PICs, and vice-versa.
>
>I have to side with David here. Nothing is "WAY" better than anything
>else until you take all your particular needs and biases into
>account. If there is anything specific you don't like about the PIC,
>ask here about that aspect of the AVR before spending money and
>effort on a switch.

It's enough of a difference for me that I won't use a PIC unless forced to.

>I came to AVR from the Z8 Encore! with a strong anti-ZiLOG sentiment
>after wasting a lot of time and effort on third-party support for
>this MCU. After a while I had to admit that there are ways in which
>even the Z8 Encore! is superior to the AVR (though I would never make
>another product with one).

I always liked the Z8, but not the company that produced it.
Once, Zilog was on top of the world, and tools for their Z-80 products were 
cheap, good, and wonderful..  On the Z8 side though, tools are buggy, 
support minimal to non-existent.

I don't know on the encore, but the original Z8 also ran at Xtal/12(!) 
which meant that you got 1 mips at 12 MHz.  On the plus side, all 
instructions work with all registers, all registers are ram, and any pair 
is a pointer, if you want to use it that way.

Still, I'll take the AVR, happily.