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

[Roman Sowa]

Although I used a few micros before on my own PCBs, first, and the only 
development boards I extensively used were the ones for ADSP2181 and 
DSP56000.
Later I got freebies of dev boards for various micros, even bought one 
or two kits myself, but never actually moved them further than running 
demo apps. Somehow it feels better to run the code on hardware you 
designed. Can learn more this way.
Besides if the LED-blink demo requires 10 source files it's quite 
discouraging to tweak that.

Roman

W dniu 2015-09-19 o 23:46, Michael Zacherl pisze:
> 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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