Hello,

On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:21:19 +0200
Andreas Fritiofson <[email protected]> wrote:

[]

> > > Who would use ATMega if it costs _more_ than modern controllers
> > > but allows to do much, much _less_?
> >
> > Probably those who have paid for it already. Also those, who keep
> > using awfully expensive FT232* stuff...
> >
> >
> I don't get what you mean with "awfully expensive"... A suitable FTDI
> chip is about the same price (+/- 50%) compared to a ATMega series
> AVR chip.

Well, I mean just that - some dumb USB-UART/bitbang converter costs
like a whole general-purpose MCU (while there're other USB-UART
converters which cost much less).

> And a complete development module with a FT232H is the same
> price as an Arduino Micro. And by the same reasoning, why would you
> bother with making a lousy JTAG adapter out of an AVR if you already
> are "using awfully expensive FT232* stuff"?

The original talk was of using something else besides that, and yet
there's whole bunch of FT-based JTAG adapters, and I'm not sure they're
going to be displaced soon - because they work, and work kinda well.
But we digress here. My aim is not to compare different hardware (I
don't challenge that some is more suitable for JTAG than other), but
to support it all, without placing arguably arbitrary cutovers.

> 
> /Andreas


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 Paul                          mailto:[email protected]

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