On Apr 5, 2009, at 4:58 PM, solarwind wrote:

>>> AVR32 can run Linux? That's amazing. Why can't the PIC32 do this?
>>
>> No external memory bus for attaching the vast amounts of RAM (by
>> "microcontroller standards" that linux needs.)
>
> So are the AVR32s more expensive than PIC32s? And how are they in  
> terms of power consumption? I know that ARMs take the most power out  
> of the 3. So do they take more or less power than the PIC32s in  
> general?

I dunno.  I haven't read the spec sheets recently, and I've shied away  
from any AVR32 interest for assorted reasons.

Your statement about ARMs is WAY too sweeping a generalization to  
cover a name that includes everything from 1GHz+ cpus with external  
buses and massive caches to 28pin 20MHz microcontrollers (and quite a  
few separate sub-architectures.)

BillW

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