I've worked a good bit with all of the devices we're talking about. The AVR micros are well loved, and quite good. That said, my colleagues and I moving away from them, mostly to Cortex-M0s. Don't be fooled by the prevalence of ARM chips in phones. Thats a whole different situation. The Ms are all very simple and clean little devices, just like the AVRs. They're also a great assembly environment.
The M3s are very powerful, but overkill for most of these jobs. The M0 is targeted at the same jobs as the AVR, but it leverages the ARM ecosystem, and it has a wide-open growth path. The MSP430 is the low-power winner, for now. The M0 is going to knock it off that perch any time now. There also aren't any open-source programming tools for it. The MSP430 also a well loved chip. So right now, if you want to do ARM (and you don't want to roll your own compilers), your bet bet is Expresso or Mbed. These are nicely packaged environments that get you going pretty quickly. If you want to take that road with smaller things, the Arduino is excellent. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/JUn-i8sVPAMJ. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
