On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:13:12PM +0200, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> About dsPIC30 and hobbyists/newbies...
> 
> Now, how many hobbyists/newbies 
> are
> realy looking for that DSP "thing" ?

Olin Lanthop has pointed out that it's possible to use dsPIC
as a really fast, really feature packed (multiple USARTS,
multi channel PWM, etc).

> 
> If it's just the added 
> "power" (speed, 
> peripherials and so on), it could be
> better to wait 
> for the "standard" 16-bits
> PIC24 (it was "24", right ?)

Nope. The dsPIC is here now. If you have an application for it
you should use it.  

> 
> Yes, you can 
> use the dsPIC30 without
> looking at the DSP engine, but it's still
> extra 
> pages in the datasheet and extra
> instructions and so on.
> 
> And by the 
> time that PIC24 hit the
> streets, the tools might have evolved
> a bit 
> more then today (mainly 3-part
> programmers).

Is there a time frame for that?

BAJ
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