I regret to say that Peter died a week or so ago. He was always curious and willing to experiment with all sorts of things.
I miss him already, although I hadn’t seen him for several years. ../Dave On Aug 15, 2018, 4:26 PM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk <[email protected]>, wrote: > Greetings, Peter Hiscocks. > > I tried sending the following to your Ryerson email address but the message > bounced so I am trying to get it to you this time via the GTALUG mailing list. > > I saw a video of your talk about Atmel AVR parts. Interesting talk. There > are a few points you didn't make about the AVR microcontrollers. > > First, the instruction set is optimized for C. This is one of the reasons I > chose to use AVR parts instead of PIC. That and no bank switching of memory > with AVR. > > Second, you can use the AVR part without the need for an external crystal in > many cases unless you are doing something requiring very precise timing. If > you don't need precise timing you can use the built-in oscillator but it can > also be calibrated to improve its timing accuracy. > > The real "Hello, World" program for hardware (such as microprocessors, > microcontrollers, CPLDs, and FPGA's) is the blinking light. > > The question from the audience "Is the Atmel only on the Arduino?" was > interesting. A lot of people associate the ATMEL AVR processors with Arduino > when Arduino is more about the form factor and pinouts on a PCB and the > software libraries, and programming method than about a given processor. You > could have an Arduino board that doesn't use an ATMEL part. > > -- > Cheers! > > Kevin. > > http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that > https://www.patreon.html/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and > | that's why we're powerful" > Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | > #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
--- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
