Hi Cristopher. You make me curious, you jumped from pic16/18 to stm32? Why not continue to dspic or pic32? Is ARM better/easier? I see lots of projects out there being done with those micros. I'm not sure what to do next: Jump to pic32, or jump bigger to arm. El viernes, 22 de marzo de 2013, Christopher Head escribi= =F3: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:36:25 -0000 > "Jim Franklin" wrote: > >> Unfortunately, if the pages listed below are anything like the rest >> of the Microchip documentation I have had to use, he'd be better >> reading a comic book. The MC docs can be fuzzy, misleading and in >> places self-contradicting. >> >> I still love the chips themselves, just not the documents, or the IDE >> or the compilers! > > Funny, I have had almost the exact opposite experience with Microchip=92s > datasheets! I found that the PIC datasheets (full disclosure: I have > only used PIC16F and PIC18F) have incredibly complete, pretty accurate > information written in good English; when I started using the STM32F4 > series I was quite disappointed that the datasheets seemed a lot harder > to read, with the effect of individual bits in peripheral registers > described, but not fully explained (e.g. one of the bits in the USB > engine was described as something along the lines of (roughly) =93resets > hardware in the PHY clock domain=94=97OK, but AFAICT nowhere does it > describe *what* hardware is in which clock domain, so I have no idea > what this will actually reset!) and seemed to be a lot more about > canned recipes for accomplishing specific tasks rather than Microchip=92s > style of just describing what the hardware does. > > Chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlFMv2wACgkQMcVpqLZH/3zYdAD/bYFdwrLCOuN2VhtfTFCj2Xkn > OlCicx6hPvMII75n10AA/3OOnKdAB71bVwq74cuOv0guQY/9nUoaDjRxadknvqFb > =3DZf8X > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .