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Re: [AVR-Chat] something a bit faster

2005-02-02 by Paul Maddox

Leon,

> ARM would be an obvous choice, but if it's mostly maths intensive maybe
you
> should be looking at DSP type devices - DsPIC perhaps.

There are only a few times I'm using floats, but its enough to slow the
MEGA16 down quite a bit.
A DSP would be overkill.
As for ARM, yeah, they're nice, but I've yet to find a reasonbly priced
SDK/IDE that works (I've had no success with GCC and other free tools)

> Atmel also do a SRAM based AVR that runs at something like 35MHz from
SRAM,
> loaded from an EEPROM -
> can't remember the number but it's one of their USB parts

I'll take a look, thanks.

Paul

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