In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said: > > How much do you need on a PIC ? > > > I did not have many hope for really using Pascal on the PIC, but I am > just thinking about a project with a PIC24 (which is a quite normal 16 > bit processor core with 64K linear addressable memory (completely > integrated in the chip)
Yes, but most come with only 8k :-) Only recent roadmaps seem to finally have some with more memory. Well, I gave up PIC24 since they don't contain motorcontrol, so I'm now using their big brother dspic33 (the 100 pin variants). Though apparantly that is now a new architecture, because since a few weeks, both have an own compiler. >,other than the PIC16, which is an 8 Bit processor with no "memory" bit > only "Registers" in multiple 256 Byte banks). I never used those, but their brother, the PIC18, which is roughly the same with some additional regs to make a compiler workable. Still a 256 byte page though. > Here I in fact need to port part of an existing Delphi project (a master > node of a serial communication network). But serial access in both is on the level "put a byte in a register, and wait for a bit to be set", not componentized like e.g. cport or async. The overhead would kill you. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel