[Coco] PICs and S-Video

[jdaggett at gate.net]

There are strengths and weaknesses of both microcontrollers. There 
are plenty of tools both from the vendor and from third party 
sources. 

As for cost between them it is almost a wash. The greatest strength 
of the AVR's is that they were designed to compete head to head 
with the HC11/12 line of microcontrollers from Motorola. Pics were 
not. I have looked at the instruction set for the AVRs and they more 
remind me more of the HC11 than that of the 6809 instruction set. 
Then to me assembly is assembly. Oncew you learn the syntax, it is 
rather easy to use. 

A new member on the market now is the PSOCs from Cypress. 
They have some interesting aspects that neither AVRs or PICs 
have. 

james

>On 22 Feb 2006 at 13:24, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:

> Quoting Mark Marlette <mark at cloud9tech.com>:
> 
> > Chris,
> >
> > Go with an AVR, they are cheap, many choices under $5. Programmers are cheap.
> >
> > You understand 6809 assembly, picking up on the AVR... no problem for you.
> 
> Yeah I'll definatly second that, looked at PICs and AVRs when I got back into
> doing electronic stuff, and decided that PIC asm was horrible ! AVR is much
> closer to 6809, plus there is also a free GCC implementation.
> 
> Also don't be put off by the fact that the max PIC speed is 40MHz, and AVR is
> 20MHz, I believe that the PICs internally devide that by 4 so it's effectivly
> ony 10MHz.
> 
> Just my 2 pence worth.....
> 
> Phill.
> 
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