In my opinion PIC is more available than AVR. For example Avnet has no
PDIPs available other than the 8515. All American is recommended by an
Atmel FAE.

Regards,

Chetan


On 5/19/05, John Samperi <samperi@ampertronics.com.au> wrote:
> At 07:10 AM 20/05/2005, you wrote:
> >He's concerned about the availability of the parts firstly.
> 
> Which AVR?
> 
> >Second issue is the A2D converter built in reference.
> .........
> >Is it really that pointless to use the internal reference or not?
> 
> There seem to be some 'ISSUES' with the built in reference,
> I haven't had to use the A/D converter for precision measurements
> yet so can't really comment. But you can always use VCC as Vref
> (internally switched) of use an external Vref.
> 
> Regards
> 
> John Samperi
> 
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