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Article #686Re: My hat is off to Microchip and their CEO!
From: Mark Harriss
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:03
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:03
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Nico Coesel wrote: > "David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also when looking for a long term investment in micros you may have to >> consider the companies viability. > > Not really. Most of the cost for designing a product goes into the > firmware. If you use PIC and want to switch to another platform you'll > quickly learn that porting C code from or to PIC is almost impossible > for any real piece of firmware*. If you start out with say Renesas H8, > TI's MSP430 or any ARM flavor you'll find exchanging C code between > those is very easy. > > * I know the pheripherals are different. Hardware drivers are least of > the problem though. > This is the kind of gotcha you need to know about in advance when deciding what architecture to use.
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