AVR-Chat

At 06:55 PM 3/16/2004 -0800, Dave Hylands wrote:

>Yeah, but can you take your modular ASM code and use it on an ARM
>processor, or an Intel, etc?

Sure. You just write the new routine in the native language to follow the same algorithm. I just did this for a CRC routine, with source in 8051 on the AVR. 


>This is one of the reasons why I like C, because I don't have to care
>which processor I'm running on. This is certainly not to say that all C
>code is portable, because it isn't, but I can write large portions of my
>code which I move from one platform to another with little or no
>changes.

It's not that hard. I think in this case, it took me 30 mins or so.
And the routine is tight, and well built for the AVR.