7 Dec
2008
7 Dec
'08
4:07 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Absolutely. Many of the tools are open-source,
royalty-free, running
on a variety of OS platforms. The chips themselves are documented to
a fare-thee-well. For example, the ATMega8 user's manual runs to
over 300 pages (PDF downloadable for free) and it doesn't even
discuss the instruction set--that's in the "AVR family" manual.
As a tech junkie, I love the datasheets for the AVR uCs. I save them
local as reference works, and use them all the time. I think the PIC is
verbosely documented as well.
As someone else noted, I prefer the AVR architecture to the PIC, but
some people swear by the PIC line. THey do offer a mutlitude of
different options
Jim