[sdiy] Now what?!?! AVR, PIC, or Scenix SX?

[GothGeek Sysadmin]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:18:14PM -0500, Rob B wrote:
> Scenix - Fast, cheap to emulate, hard to find, lots of IO.
> PIC - Not so fast, a bit expensive to emulate, but cheap and easy to find.
> Atmel - Not all that fast, fairly cheap, very cheap to emulate, and they are

Personally, I lean towards using the old slow tried and true Intel 803x
series.  The one huge advantage is there are *tonnes* of tools out there
for development and in 50 years someone somewhere will probably still be
making them.  Disadvantages, takes up lots of board space and draws
relatively alot of power.

I've heard that Scenix chips can be in some applications Dirt slow.  I've
used them for some non-music things and they are pretty fast as long as
you dont do any I/O.

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