[sdiy] WHICH PIC/UCONTROLLER should I buy today

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 9 Aug 2010, at 15:04, Tony Rolando wrote:

> Antti Huovilainen wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, dan snazelle wrote:
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>>> ALSO...beyond the classic hal chamberlin book, are there any really good books on using AVR's or PICS for music/audio applications? OR just good books on modern AVR's or PICS?
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>> Dunno about books, but for audio applications, I'd stay away from 8 bit microcontrollers. 16 bit dspics are cheap and quite powerful and there are even models that have a builtin 16 bit stereo dac.
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>> Antti
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> On the subject of the DSPICs, I have noticed that some of them have multiple PWM outputs, are these able to be used independently?

Yes. They can all have independent pulse widths, but they are all clocked at the same rate. So you can output multiple signals, but you only get one sample rate for all the modules.

T.