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

[KA4HJH]

>Scenix - Fast, cheap to emulate, hard to find, lots of IO.

Heard good things about Scenix.


>PIC - Not so fast, a bit expensive to emulate, but cheap and easy to find.
>Also, too, imho, there are too many variants.. so many its hard to figure
>out which one you want.

What you want are the ones with flash RAM. That narrows it down a lot.


>Atmel - Not all that fast, fairly cheap, very cheap to emulate, and they are
>all over! One thing though: if you are going by sheer mhz, they don't seem
>that fast, unless they can do 1 operation per cycle.. If they are like the
>PIC (1 operation every 4 cycles) then they will not be all that fast..

No, they're on op per machine cycle so they are faster. All use flash RAM.


>Let me know if I got it so far. ;) Im really pushing towards the Atmel right
>now, only because there are a lot out there and its cheap to emulate. Plus,
>lots and lots of IO..

Go for it.
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Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"