[sdiy] Most common ICs

[Tom Wiltshire]

I agree that some of the limitations of the original 8-bit PIC instruction set are a pain. However, they fixed several irritations when they did the 2012 upgrade to the "enhanced" 16F1xxx chips, and I now pretty much only use the newer chips.

I wrote to the list about these chips at the time, 12 April 2012; "New 16F18xx enhanced mid range PICs"

On 20 Sep 2015, at 08:18, rsdio at audiobanshee.com wrote:

> The dsPIC and PIC24 have slightly enhanced instruction sets. It's probably more enjoyable to program in assembler on dsPIC than the 8-bit PIC variations. It's certainly possible to program the 8-bit PIC in assembly, but I wouldn't recommend 100% assembly as it certainly can be a pain to deal with the limitations (4K RAM in 16 banks, etc).
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> On Sep 19, 2015, at 4:06 PM, Vinicius Brazil <brazil.v at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I use a lot the dsPIC33 family in my modules, 40 ~ 70 MIPS is a very considerable speed for most applications in 16 bit.
>> I only program in assembler and generally PICs are very easy to write in assembler.
>> A dsPIC33FJ128GP802 costs about 4 USD 40 MIPS, 128Kbytes Flash, 500Mhz 12bit ADC, 1kbytes RAM and many peripherals.
>> I have searched better solutions with best cost-benefit and programming in assembler but not yet found.
>> Suggestions will be very welcome.
>> Especially in the case 32 bits.
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>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
>>> Plus one for dsPIC33F.  I don't find them expensive at all.  I use assembly language and the dsPIC to be easy to program and efficient, moreso using DMA.  I don't think that a 12 voice Karplus-Strong MIDI synth with pitch bend is doing too badly at all.
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