> I just received the engineering review from Maxim.
> If I only take a look at the pictures,
> we should immediately stop using PICs and AVRs and go for
>Maxim. Judge yourself:

Received that the other day, and had a quick glance through it, but hadn't
appreciated what they were peddling. Have now had another look after this
series of emails.

There claims on the strengths and weaknesses of the PIC16 series seem a bit
hit and miss though.

Weakness - pipelined instruction fetch
         - cannot direct load W (accumulator) (what the heck does the MOVLW
do??)
         - RETLW for code memory reads conveniently forgets that most recent
additions can do direct reads
         - indirect data access requires INDF,FSR registers - well to do an
indirect access you need a register with a value to use as an address
anyway.

And then in the MAXQ strengths, they list "prefixable opcode allows a simple
means for instruction set extensions or enhancements". Anyone recall the
8086 with the FPU and 8089 enhancements to the instruction set?

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