Whereas I've never needed to run a pic at max frequency (nothing I
do has been that speed critical), I can see this non-div-by-4 clock
as being useful for getting the max speed out of a processor while
meeting the FCC 1.705Mhz exemption threshold.

Cheers,
-Neil.



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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Jinx
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 6:53 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [AVR]: Wondering about the avr...
>
>
> > me.  It may be true that PICs have fast single cycle instructions,
> > but my 20mhz is divided by 4 so am I really seeing single cycle
> > execution?  I feel like I'm giving up at least 4 for every instruction
>
> An 8MHz AVR is faster than a 20MHz PIC, as the PIC has a /4
> clock system, so is effectively running at 5MHz. I'd be interested
> to know if there are any bench mark routine comparisons around
> of AVR vs PIC for task completion in "real world" applications
>
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