[sdiy] PIC 16F1788 CPU bug

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 29 Nov 2013, at 16:10, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:

> Seeing as most of us deal with small runs or prototypes, that
> would make AVR the logical choice. And yet PIC projects seem to
> outnumber AVR projects.
> 
> Am I missing something ?

No, I don't think so. You're maybe overestimating the amount of logic that goes into these decisions.

Having spent several years playing with this stuff, I reckon I could now make a logical and informed choice about which is the better platform for a given task. However, at the point I was trying to decide which platform to opt for, I knew virtually nothing about it and it was mostly dumb luck. The careful choice of the 16F684 processor for all my early projects was entirely the result of the fact that that's what I had available with my first PICKit 1 programmer!

We think that these choices are worked out, but mostly they're not. You only find out later if you made the right choice or not, and by then it's too late. Luckily, in the case of processors, I don't think it matters hugely, and certainly not at our level. You can make any of them do any of the stuff that we might want them to do, although some will do some bits more easily and others other bits more easily.

T.