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

[Tim Ressel]

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On 9/20/2015 3:36 PM, Vinicius Brazil wrote:
> Yes, Tim.
> One of my biggest thrills hardware / firmware was working on a CPU 
> 2901 of three phases (ran three programs simultaneously, one on each 
> clock phase, 33MHz). beginning of the decade of 80. A total madness ...
>
> -Vinicius Brazil
> brazil.v at gmail.com <mailto:brazil.v at gmail.com>
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Tim Ressel <timr at circuitabbey.com 
> <mailto:timr at circuitabbey.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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>>         --Tim Ressel
>>         Circuit Abbey
>>         timr at circuitabbey.com <mailto:timr at circuitabbey.com>
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