>But what is realy special about AVR compared to PICs? I'm no AVR
>specialist, so I am just thinking aloud. A/D with better resolution? 3
>UARTs on a cheap low-pin-count part? Fast interface to external memory?
>USB interface on a flash chip?

Just having looked at the page now, I see a few possible advantages I
need to further investigate.  I see an 8-pin device that can write its
own program memory (there's your 8-pin bootloader!), and 8-pins with
PWM.  Also mutiple channels of PWM, but I don't know if each can have
different values.  Also promising is the speed- the 8-pin I looked at
closely
does 3% calibrated internal speed at 4.8 or 9.6 MHz, and can reach up
to 9.6 MIPS.  Of course, that's tough, because a lot of the best
instructions are multiple cycle, but what're you going to do?

They do have some interesting USB products, but nothing really great.
The AVR based ones are RAM/ROM only, not flash, and none of the
USB chips are small enough to be DIP.

All in all, I'd say its definitely worth a look, but I doubt it'll make me
drop
Microchip all together.  The PIC is just too darn easy to use.

Mike H.

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