27 Oct
2011
27 Oct
'11
11:20 a.m.
On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Absolutely agreed, I was just getting tetchy about the juxtaposition of the
talk about little RTOSes for PICs and then Unix on the PIC32. It's a
nervous tic I have from working with too many customers whose only
experience with micros is the PIC (because they're too lazy to try anything
else) and insist on upgrading to a PIC32 because they think it'll be
compatible with their existing software base.
Though I've overcome it now (mostly), I had a very strong bias against PIC
for many years mainly because of the technologically inbred nature of many
of their fans.
A few years back I started a new job to work on a project to replace an
aging PIC-based door access control module. The new platform had already
been selected by the time I started: ColdFire running an RTOS. This was
driven mainly by the fact that the new parent company had a commercial line
of HVAC controllers based on that processor. Not a bad choice but the
dreams of code re-use were mostly unfounded.
Interestingly, it turns out one of the reasons I was hired was to backfill
the fan-boy who resigned in a huff because a PIC-32 wasn't selected.
Amardeep