AVR-Chat

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From: "blue_eagle74" <blue_eagle74@yahoo.com>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 2:50 AM
Subject: [AVR-Chat] magazine


>I have been reading the circuit celler and nuts and volts. It seems that 
>alot of projects are for the PIC. Is the PIC better to use? Is there a 
>magazine mainly for the AVR that I don't know about? I'm not asking which 
>is best but why all the PIC projects? To me the AVR is alot easier and 
>cheaper to work with.

Designers select a chip which gets the job done as cheaply and easily as 
possible. In some situations it might be an AVR, in another it might be PIC, 
or something else. Microchip is the market leader in 8-bit MCUs, which 
probably explains the preponderance of PIC projects (Atmel is fifth). PICs 
are popular because of the low cost of the tools, excellent support and the 
vast range of devices that they make. I use both PICs and AVRs (and lots of 
other chips), and don't find PICs any harder to use than AVRs. I find that 
they are often cheaper for a given application.

Leon