[sdiy] how you got started with your current µC?

[Tim Ressel]

Bit slice as in AND 2901? That is hard core. I own a copy of Mick and 
Brick, but never made a bit slice.

--tr

On 9/20/2015 2:17 PM, Vinicius Brazil wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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 <mailto: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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