On Oct 27, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Bob Blick wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a 32 bit micro whose vendor supplies software librar=
ies that are quite usable for more than just a single-function basic demo

I've sorta decided that it's pretty hopeless expecting a hardware vendor to=
 release good software.
I haven't gotten past initialization functions without getting pretty disgu=
sted with ASF, TivaWare, and ST Standard Peripheral Library.  I haven't qui=
te been able to tell whether the CMSIS standard requires code to be inelega=
nt and bloated, but it sort-of looks that way.

Some of the OS vendors have pretty good reputations, for the chips (and fea=
tures) that they support (but that tends to be an abstracted subset of actu=
al chip features=85)  (maybe we need a RPFC - Reduced Peripheral Feature Co=
mputer. As RISC stopped luring assembly programmers with fancy instructions=
 that were slow and difficult to use from a compiler, RPFC would avoid fanc=
y peripherals that were difficult to use at a systems/OS level.)

BillW


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