AVR-Chat

Yes - whatever works!

Some years ago I rewrote some code I'd originally written for the Z-80 for 
an 8051.  The 8051 actually seemed more versatile, even though the Z-80 
had a larger instruction set.

I recently rewrote some code originally for a PIC into AVR assembler.  The 
AVR code came out about two-thirds the size of the PIC code.  

I got an ad sheet in the mail the other day from Dallas Semiconductor.  
It had data about a new microcontroller.  It indicated they are the 
fastest microcontrollers on the market now, apparently far surpassing 
AVR's in speed.  They do have some neat features, including on-chip DAC's 
as well as ADC's. But I' not ready to give up on AVR's yet. So it goes.

Zack


On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Dave Hylands wrote:

> Hi Zack,
> 
> > I'm not knocking the higher-level languages, it's just that I haven't
> > really needed them myself.
> 
> I work on a whole bunch of processors (AVR, ARM, PC) so being able to
> share source code really helps.
> 
> Different strokes for different folks :)
> 
> --
> Dave Hylands