29 Sep
2011
29 Sep
'11
1:09 p.m.
On 09/29/2011 02:12 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
And more ambitiious projects can be done with the
Digilent PIC32-
based Arduino upgrade (? I don't know exactly what to call it).
Comes with a pre-programmed boot loader, so you don't have to go
through Microchip's ridiculous programming (PicKit3--puts out ISP,
which is then translated by the PIC32 into JTAG. Really weird. Why
not just start with JTAG?) Tool chain is free, as usual.
Yes Microchip makes good stuff, but sometimes they seem a bit "out of
touch" with the way the rest of the world does things.
For me, it's a bit too much handholding. I like
to select the uC
version that meets the design requirements, instead of the other way
around.
I agree 100%. I end up using Philips (erm, NXP) LPC2000-series ARM7s
for most stuff these days, and for very tiny stuff I use one of the
small modern mcs51 implementations. Both treat me very, very well.
I just landed a big consulting job (one of the reasons I'm in the
process of moving from FL to PA, there's actual WORK here!) that will
have me doing a lot of AVR work. I'm looking forward to that. That was
why I was dicking with the Arduino board this morning (with bare metal,
no Arduino platform), to test my freshly-built cross-compilation and
programming toolchain.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL