AVR-Chat

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 20:42 -0700, WASEEM SHAHZAD wrote:
>                  ATmega8 will do the best. Why ur
> teacher has asked u to do it with just atmel and not
> PIC Microcontrollers.

1)  Almost any ATMEGA chip would work, on the basis of the small amount
of information available to us


2)  I would imagine the instructor is personally familiar with the AVR
line, and would find it easiest to evauluate the quality of the code.

3)  This is an AVR mailing list, why are you pushing PIC?

4)  At any given level of performance, PICs cost more than AVRs.  Also,
many AVRs are capable of performance levesl unreachable by most PICs
(given that most of the their processors are still 4
clocks/instruction).

5)  While it is true that the PIC assembler supports fewer instrcutions
(op codes), and some view that as an advantage in terms of simplicity,
the truth is that the AVR instrcution set is more orthogonal, and more
logically consistent.  It is also quite a bit more flexible and
powerful.

6)  Besides whihc, this is an AVR mailinglist.  Why are you pushing PIC?
(did I already say that?)   ***GRIN***

tom