[Coco] PICs and S-Video

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Alan

For more info on the Atmel AVR see the following link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR

AVR is an acronym for Advanced Virtual Risk, which by the way two 
of the letters in the acronym is a letter of the names of the inventor 
of the chip inNorway.

It started out as an 8 bit Harvard archetecture computer and has 
advanced to 32 bit archecture. Like the PIC controllers there is a 
large following of this series of processors and a large set of tools to 
develop programs with.

james
On 24 Feb 2006 at 7:30, Alan Jones wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> What is "AVR" out of curiousity?
> 
> Alan
> 
> 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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