At 11:59 AM 12/10/2014, Vitaliy M wrote: >We've been using PICs since the founding of our company in 2002, and=20 >continue developing new designs using the new parts Microchip has=20 >been adding to their lineup. "Crappy" is not a word I would use to=20 >describe them. I've been working with PICs since being burned by Motorola's=20 allocation problems back in the late '80s. What that means is that=20 Motorola had introduced a nifty new part, we had designed that part=20 into a product, then Motorola couldn't meet the market demand and we=20 were told that we would have to wait something like 54 weeks to get=20 our chips. One of the FAEs that visit us told us about Microchip and=20 the brand-new 16C71 with built-in a/d convertor - and told us that=20 the chips were available NOW - and we were sold. We've done projects with other microcontrollers. First the TI MSP430=20 family, some Atmel parts, I'm now looking at Freescale (Motorola of=20 old), ST, Renesas, others. But my bread-and-butter projects are done=20 with PICs. We do mostly simple projects: things like timers and controllers for=20 HVAC systems, solar charge controllers, a whole mishmash of=20 projects. And we've done some fairly complicated projects as well -=20 all of those done with the PIC16 family except for a couple. The chips work well. Yes - they have some real quirks that you have=20 to deal with. But no worse than any of the other parts that I've=20 used in the past. dwayne --=20 Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax www.trinity-electronics.com Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing --=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 .