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Tsvetan,

of course a decision like this depends on more then just the openness of 
a company (And Atmel may not be the best example either in that case). 
Still I would say that if its easy to get samples, get information, have 
many application notes  available often will be one of the key factors 
on uP selection. No one can probably state that the PIC is superior in 
architecture. Most people choose it because of successfully company 
politics by Microchip. Openness being one important part.

/Ake

tsvetanusunov wrote:

> > Swedish company last week and they liked the LPC more then the
> > competition but selected the AVR ARM instead because of the same
> > reasons. And in that case we talk about a lot of pieces.
>
> I don't understand this, what are you telling us that Atmel opens
> their software specs? try to get from them the debug-write specs then!
> I don't belive if somebody picked chip X or Y the reason is for the
> open software programming specs.
> LPCs have their strong side - easy to learn, less features to confuse
> the beginner, smooth learning curve for peoples who move from 8-bits
> this in other hand is their weak side later on - too infantile
> peripherials, no DMA channels etc, SAM7S256(same price range as
> LPC2124) for instance have 11 DMA channels connected to every
> peripherial which relief the CPU from overhead waiting to read this
> or that peripheral, so I bet the Swedish company moved to Atmel due
> to other reasons than the programming specs.
> perhaphs the way Philips to go is to keep this high-runner entry
> series, but to introduce one more sophisticated serie which to keep
> to them the peoples who want some more power from the ARMs :)
>
>
> Best regards
> Tsvetan
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