On Friday 24 February 2017 09:54:13 Stephen Dubovsky wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Erik Christiansen > <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > ... > > > Conversely, why is the ATtiny15 > > "best" for the job at hand? Answer: Because it has a few ADC > > channels, I have a few of them in my goodies box, AND I'm set up to > > develop with them. > > That last one is big. "set up to develop them." I'll expand on that > in just one second... > > > > They are very good, cheap, very common and used by many > > > manufacturers. > > > > Nicklas, that is true for all the microcontrollers doing well on the > > market. > > ARM has over 80 licensees for just the Cortex family. Atmel has... > only themselves. If you are going to invest the time & money to setup > and develop for a chip, not just for a current project but unknown > future ones, you will likely be better off starting/switching to ARM. > I've been writing embedded code professionally for decades and have > used darn near everything. We currently have products using > Motorola(freescale), Atmel ATMega, Microchip, TI DSP, and ARM in > production. Its a *NO BRAINER* that ARM is the winner in the bang for > the buck and is going into all new products. The breadth of products > available is simply unmatched by those other manufacturers combined. > Its not that any of the other companies are bad. Many make a couple > class leading products, its just their business model is limiting. > We've had Renesas try to court us on multiple occasions (RZ family I > iirc). They make some really nice products that were faster then the > ARMs available at the time but in the end I told them - 'your only > flaw is that it isn't an ARM'. And that choice proved to be the right > one as there were ARMs faster than those Renesas cores available > shortly after. Renesas makes ARM products too now. FWIW, We are > currently alpha testing the STM32H7 - super fun part! > > Its not a perfect analogy but ARM is the hardware equivalent to open > source. Pay for the core (ok, so not exactly open source) and put > *ANYTHING* you want around it. Since this is a forum of Linux users > that should find broad appeal. Chip manufacturers have certainly > voted to support it. > > > As the original question specifically referred to Arduino > > development, it may also be that being able to talk to the Arduino > > community is also a tangible benefit. It is doubtless more useful > > than mere CPU evangelism. > > Indeed support is VERY useful. There are many more ARM forums (and > professional users) then Arduino. In my professional opinion: 10yrs > from now ARM will still very much be around. I wouldn't make the same > bet on Arduino/ATmega. > > 'CPU evangelism' made me chuckle as it is a very apt description. > Will remember that phrase:) > > Stephen
What Stephen said, from the sidelines observer this battle is now in the clean up the casaulties phase, arm won it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
