Not trying to hijack the thread but does Atmel have a samples program
akin to Microchips?

On 8/25/05, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
> >> Years and years ago when I was developing WISP and the first
> >> steps of Jal (I was still just a hobbyist then) I got a free
> >>  PS+ and some samples from uChip
> 
> > Wow, a free PS+, that was quite generous.
> 
> Hmm.  I wonder whether whether Wouter has "moved up in the world"
> and is expected (as an established vendor of PICs and PIC development
> tools) to simply ask for development resources if he needs or wants
> them?  I know that the first time I ordered samples from microchip,
> I very shortly received a phone call from cisco's microchip rep,
> introducing herself and asking whether I needed any additional
> help or resources, whether I needed the samples hand delivered
> RIGHT NOW, and so on.   I explained that my interest in PICs was
> as a hobbyist rather than for a cisco project, and I think we have
> a comfortable "understanding" these days, but it was an interesting
> experience, and I'm pretty sure if I were to actually work on a
> project involving a PIC I'd be able to get all sorts of free
> development tools...
> 
> Now, Wouter isn't cisco, but then cisco isn't an "ambassador for
> microchip" the way Wouter is either, and I would think that a word
> in the right ear would get him dsPIC development tools aimed at
> better support for them in WISP and/or JAL.  Finding the right
> ear might be a bit difficult, though (like, I wouldn't know how
> to find cisco's microchip rep if she weren't on top of things...)
> 
> BillW
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