On 16-01-27 11:06 AM, NeonJohn wrote:
On 01/27/2016 09:22 AM, Nick wrote:
+1 on hating the PIC "architecture".
I was always an AVR man, then I discovered the MSP430 series... :)
Interesting. I plugged MPS430 into mouser and what came up is a large
100 pin chip that is fairly expensive. Are there smaller versions in
the series? I guess I have a lot of reading to do.
I'm in a quandary. In upcoming products, I need more power than the
AVRs can provide. I feel like I should be on the ARM bandwagon but I
have no idea where to start. This TI chip looks interesting but it
chaps me to have to pay for dev tools. Yeah, I know the GNU chain is
free but sometimes one just has to have a source code debugger.
At the Last Ottawa Linux Symposium, Jon Hall mentioned that he is now
working for http://www.linaro.org/
They seem to be the folks that work on the tool chains and migration
paterns for the Whole ARM line. It is a but unusual as ARM designs the
chips but licences the design to several other firms to make them, and
the spread is between small chips for low power, and bigger ones that
take on low level x86 style tasks.
I only remember the highlights of Jon's talk.
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