On 1/15/06, Shawn Wilton wrote: > That's funny, because most of the companies I have had experience with, and > my previous university use them exclusively... And we're talking about big > companies.. > AVR was used almost exclusively by my colleagues in Germany and they are still being used in the existing designs. However for new designs, the component manager has issued a ban because of availability problem. The problem has been always there but last year it became so bad that the ban was issued. In Singapore, AVR was banned quite sometime ago when they obsoleted almost all parts (AVR 90S). How can you deal with such a company like Atmel? The AVR is a good MCU but in the wrong hand. Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist