Fw: [sdiy] Anybody using Atmel AVR?

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:35:00AM -0000, Paul Maddox wrote:
> not going to get into a 'pic vs scenix vs avr' argument.
> The scenix is fast, granted, but lacks a lot of the features of the AVR,
> including 32 registers to play with, a CISC set rather than RISC, and
> hardware peripherals, like UARTs , SPI interfaces and so on.
> FWIW, the new Mega range of AVRs rock!, 16MIPs at 16Mhz.

For anything complex the Scenix sucks, I'll totally give you that, but for
doing something simple really really really fast they are hard to beat.
I think that a DCO is a great application that just screams Scenix, oh 
and they make nifty top octave generators too.   I mean, everyone wants a
top octave generator with pitch bend right? :-)

I dont think of the Ubicom/Scenix as a general purpose microcontroller, I
think of it as a cheap easy to deal with slowish DSP.

I did just notice however that Parallax has released a BASIC compiler for
the SX18/20/28... for free...  now thats kinda nifty even though I'm not a
huge fan of even modern BASIC compilers...
( I would *kill* to find an 8052AH-FORTH, or at least a dump of the ROM so I
could try it on a more modern flavor of the 8052... )

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