I'm just happy there's reasonable competition in the embedded 32 bit space - everyone's going to ARM these days, but a lot of vendors supply powerpc (Freescale, notably), MIPs isn't dead (maybe it wasn't before, but until Microchip adopted it I hadn't seen anything with it for years), and Atmel has their AVR32. So far I've played with all three, and there aren't any particular strengths or weaknesses I notice - it comes down to peripherals and pricing, as usual, and the ARM royalty is a negative factor on pricing. On the other hand, ARM tools are very mature, so there's a tradeoff there. I'm thinking it would be fun to make an embedded 64 and 128 bit processor just to say that I was the first, but I can't think of a really compelling application for it. ;-D Plus mine would be very, very, very bad. But someone would buy it just so they could say they had it! Could process a whole CAN frame per instruction cycle. Come to think of it, networking and broadband might be a reasonable application for that, and that field is only going to grow... -Adam On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:39 PM, William Chops Westfield wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: > >> I can't help but feel that Microchip has entered the game rather >> late with the large number of established and cheap ARM based parts >> already in the market. > > I'm somewhat happy to see another 32bit core with multi-vendor > potential enter the fray, though as you say, it seems a little late. > On the other hand, the PIC32 MIPS core products are competing against > the "microcontroller" ARM products (ie those using the Cortex M3 > core), and those aren't as well established. > > BillW > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- EARTH DAY 2008 Tuesday April 22 Save Money * Save Oil * Save Lives * Save the Planet http://www.driveslowly.org -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist