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Article #1216Re: Microchip buys Hi-Tech Software
From: Joel Koltner
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:34
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:34
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"Nico Coesel" <nico@puntnl.niks> wrote in message news:49baa239.1285504281@news.planet.nl... > Good question. The traditional PIC is soon to be overtaken by the ARM > derivatives. For some markets, sure... but in many commodity items like remote controls it doesn't make sense to use a $1 32-bit ARM when a $0.10 8-bit PIC still works just fine. > An excellent version of GCC is available for the PIC32 (MIPS based) > platform. So why bother buying a compiler manufacturor? GCC for microcontrollers has never been as good as the best commercial compilers in code size or performance... and typically "customer support," although I'd grant that's a very difficult quantity to define. (E.g., there's no guarantee anyone will answer your GCC questions, but on the other hand, there's at least a chance the guy answering them is the guy who wrote the code in question, whereas that's almost never the case with commercial vendors.)
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