On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Martin Klingensmith wrote:

> Is the mega32 obsolete? Perhaps I can't find a good PIC to compare it
> to, but the mega32-44TQFP costs $8.17 qty 1 from DigiKey.
>
I don't think it's obsolete.  The nearest PIC looks like an 18F4550 
(32kb
flash, 2k ram) at $11.53 qty 1 from Digikey.  The 16F PICs have max 
memory
of 8k (words), and max ram of less than 400 bytes, so they're not even 
in
the running (assuming you NEED that memory.)  Most of the 40pin PICs are
comparable in price to the 40pin AVRs (the smaller AVR being the 
ATmega8515),
except for the PIC16F59 (2k flash, 135b ram) at $2 each ($1 each in 25s!
Wow.  I hadn't realized that Microchip had made their "baseline flash"
chips THAT cheap!  That's... nearly disruptive!)

BillW
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