26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
1:48 p.m.
On 26 Oct 2011 at 12:41, David Riley wrote:
On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
No argument there; a substantial chunk of the PIC32 documentation
appears to be cut and paste from the R4000 docs. But also to be
fair, Digilent markets a PIC32-based replacement for the AVR-based
Arduino, which is pretty much the embodiment of an embedded ?C.
In other words, the CPU architecture doesn't define the embeddedness.
--Chuck
Operating system? Well, there are OSes that fit
inside a low-end
PIC. For that matter, there's a version of Linux that runs on a
PIC32 ?C.
To be fair, a "PIC32" is just what Microchip has decided to call its
MIPS microcontroller line. It's as much a PIC as an SGI box is (aside
from the form factor and reduced RAM; most PIC32s have as many
Ethernet interfaces and many times more serial ports than most SGI
machines ever did, even if they require external PHYs to talk to the
outside world).