Agree fully. The GNU toolchain is supererb. Also, you know the toolchain
from other work (if you used it, that is work on Linux). But the price
for Atmel chips are a bit high so I often ends up with a PIC micro in my
designs anyway. Atmel has been a bit nicer with samples latly but not as
good as Microchip. But in most other aspects they are the same. Its easy
to work with both. I tend to favor an AVR when I code in C and a PIC
when I code in assembler.

/Ake

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Amne: Re: [PIC/AVR] PIC vs AVR (ATMEL)


If you really want to know the power of AVR, it's the availability of
free C compilers, and the stack.  Instead of having a hardware based
stack, with a preset depth, you're limited only by your memory
availability.  These chips are extremely nice to program in.  ASM, or C.


Shawn Wilton
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Herbert Graf wrote:
>>Has anyone ever considered moving from PIC to Atmel AVR's ? If so,
what
>>are good reasons to move ?
>>
>>I am thinking that there's a few advantages in the development tools
>>available, but then I am making an uninformed statement... Anyone else
>>willing to shed an enlightended opinion?
>
>
>         I just received an AVR starter kit and have now looked over
the AVR
> architecture. I've found that in many ways it's similar to PICs. I
can't
> really see a direct reason for choosing one over the other so far, the
AVR
> is a little nicer to deal with when it comes to banks, but it's got
some
> annoyances too. TTYL
>
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