If you have to use on chip peripherals such as DMA, ADC, or PWM you very much have to "learn a chip" (some are part of the core, some are part of the silicon manufacturer implementation.) An Arduino OS will sield you from much of that but if doing more bare metal implementation or even running a commercial RTOS its very necessary.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Stephen Dubovsky <smdubov...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Indeed support is VERY useful. There are many more ARM forums (and > > professional users) then Arduino. > > > That is an odd thing to say because Arduino is moving to ARM. > > Tool chains used to be such a big deal. Mostly what you'd be invested in > was the tools. One never learns a chip, you learn the tools used by that > family of chips. Then after coming up to speed you don't really want to > go through that again. But we are seeing a convergence of tools. There > is Arduino that now works for both AVR and ARM. Eclipse is universal and > the GNU tool chain is much the same on an ARM M3 as it is one my Apple > iMac, it's just a GNU C compiler. So "moving to ARM" can be very > transparent. Almost all my AVR code runs on ARM. > > Back in the days of propriety programers and propriety development > environments switching chips was hard. Not so any more > > I agree it was the licensing model that case ARM to take over. > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
