[sdiy] how you got started with your current µC? (was: Re: Most common ICs)

[Vinicius Brazil]

I started with the discrete bitslice cpus, after the 8088/8086, 80188/186,
8051, and after National COP8 families and Analog Devices ADSP21xx, and
finally Microchip PICs & dsPICs.

-Vinicius Brazil

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Tim Ressel <timr at circuitabbey.com> wrote:

> My first proc was a COSMAC 1802, on a breadboard, with manual entry
> switches, powered off a car battery, in a horse barn. (beat that!)
>
> The 6809 came at my first engineering tech position. It was a hand-wired
> proto board. Then 68000 and 68020, then Atmel AVR. Recently DSPIC and
> STM32. These were all pre-made boards.
>
> --TimR
>
>
>
> On 9/19/2015 2:46 PM, Michael Zacherl wrote:
>
>> I got curious:
>> did you people start with a typical dev-board of PIC/AVR/STM32/... ?
>> m.
>>
>> On 19.Sep 2015, at 21:28 , Richie Burnett <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> No probs here either.
>>>
>>> -Richie,
>>>
>>> ---- Pete Hartman wrote ----
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Gordonjcp <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:40:37PM +0100, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd probably have to agree. TL07x op-amps would be my most used IC.
>>>>> Not very glamorous, but they're the glue that holds a million audio
>>>>> circuits together.
>>>>>
>>>>> Aside from that, PIC uPs for digital, and SSM2164/V2164 for analog.
>>>>>
>>>> I've never liked PICs.  They're slow, expensive and very hard to
>>>> develop for, thanks to the sheer lack of support - and last time I looked
>>>> you had to pay extra for surface-mount!
>>>>
>>>> I used AVR for a bit but I'm moving over to STM32 - ridiculously cheap
>>>> and ridiculously fast.
>>>>
>>>> This must be a personal taste thing, as I have no problems at all
>>>> programming with PICs.  The documentation is very good, and there are lots
>>>> of examples to get over the most difficult part which is how to set the
>>>> various switches (in AVR world the equivalent is the "fuses").  I've
>>>> actually had more frustration figuring out how to set fuses, to be honest.
>>>> I haven't played with the STM32s, I'll certainly have to give that a try.
>>>>
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