> Why is the PIC uC so popular?

- www.piclist.com
- availability
- because they are popular (no joke!)

Now for the technical arguments: when you mix (flash) PICs, AVRs, SXes
and a lot of others you get a nice mix of alternatives. Each particular
application will end up with a different preferred choice from this mix.
IMHO the PICs are technically or price/performance wise not much better
or worse than the alternatives, but there simply are so much types to
choose from that the chance of a PIC fitting you needs is high. SX rules
when you need to execute lots of simple instructions, megaAVR rules when
you need lots of RAM, etc, but the various PICs fill much of the
remainder of the spectrum.

Wouter van Ooijen

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