On Nov 24, 2007 3:10 PM, YAP wrote: > On Nov 22, 2007 2:33 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > Repost here from http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=296597 > > > > http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools.asp?family_id=682 > > > > Atmel is offering free GNU toolchains (GCC based) and IDEs (Eclipse > > based, support debugging) for AVR32, under Windows and Linux. > > > > Should Microchip learn from Atmel? I think yes. > > > > What is your opinion? > > One big advantage of the ARM change is just the GCC tools. This is > probably why I never will use the new devices at all from Microchip > although I will us ethe 18F's etc as before. > But PIC32 is based on MIPS core and C32 is based on GCC. Actually PIC24/dsPIC C30 is also based on GCC. It will be interesting to see if any other company will support M4K core. Renesas/FreeScale probably will use their own 16/32 bit core. Atmel/NXP/TI/ST/Zilog already commit to ARM core. Maybe Toshiba and/or NEC will follow since both of them have MIPS based Microprocessor. Infineon is another major 16bit vendor but it seems they are losing market share. Silabs still sticks to 8051 niche with some nice features. Xoapfan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist