jrz126 said:Hi,
I'm trying to get involved in microcontrollers. I already have a couple of Atmel's AVR micros and I've been playing with them, but I'm trying to use assembly language and I've never used it before.
I'm probably going to be taking a microcontrollor course next semester, and they use a PIC for it. and assembly language.
I was just wondering if a pic was easier to understand and use compaired to the AVRs, and if I should look into buying a couple to start playing with before I take this class.
jrz126 said:but does the PIC anywhere near the same amount of processing power as the AVR? For my roof LED project I plan on using a micro for a wide variety of functions, so I dont think a pic is up to the task.
Also, since programming the AVRs is more difficult than PIC's, and if I knew how to program the AVRs, wouldn't it be easy to program a pic?
(I'm a very cheap person, so I'm looking for reasons to stick with the pic)
AVR's are faster and more efficient then pic's, but most of the time it'll be stuck waiting for events anyway.jrz126 said:but does the PIC anywhere near the same amount of processing power as the AVR? For my roof LED project I plan on using a micro for a wide variety of functions, so I dont think a pic is up to the task.
They both have a diffirent architecture, you'll need to start from the beginning again.jrz126 said:Also, since programming the AVRs is more difficult than PIC's, and if I knew how to program the AVRs, wouldn't it be easy to program a pic?
(I'm a very cheap person, so I'm looking for reasons to stick with the pic)
Nigel Goodwin said:and it's surprising how many PIC's you find in commercial equipment!.
Exo said:Nigel Goodwin said:and it's surprising how many PIC's you find in commercial equipment!.
I haven't seen much pic's used in commercial products. I've seen 1 on a hauppauge TV card for pc, to decode IR...
Where have you encountered pic's? would be interesting to know where they all end up
They both have a diffirent architecture, you'll need to start from the beginning again.
Exo said:Nigel Goodwin said:and it's surprising how many PIC's you find in commercial equipment!.
I haven't seen much pic's used in commercial products. I've seen 1 on a hauppauge TV card for pc, to decode IR...
Where have you encountered pic's? would be interesting to know where they all end up
jrz126 said:but what about the cost of the chips? and how complicated/expensive is the programmer?
So could you say that pics is like programming in C and AVR's is like programming in C++? (what I'm trying to say is most of the concepts are the same, but just different sytax?)
If I have time at work, I'll try to come up with the requirements that I'm going to need for the microcontroller for my roof led project. Then if it can be done with a pic, I'll use it
plot said:This board is definatly biased towards PICs, probably becuase Nigel is a PIC expert and get's everyone directed that way... but Atmel's definatly are a great line of microcontrollers, and are used in many many many commercial applications.
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