My impression of Harmony is that it's a decent start to a decent idea,=20
but it's very young and needs to mature before I start using it for=20
anything serious.  That immaturity comes with a the lack of organized=20
docs/tutorials, direct from Microchip or otherwise.  I find that I keep=20
"discovering" things I should know, from forum posts or otherwise,=20
rather than coming across it in a set of docs I should be following to=20
learn from.  It has gotten better, but still not there yet IMO.

Hadn't heard of gigadevice before... will investigate.

Cheers,
-Neil.


On 5/9/2016 2:01 PM, Bob Blick wrote:
> CubeMX is useful, but when you start adding/using the middleware, you=20
> need to do it one module at a time and be prepared for some=20
> testing/debugging. I could say the same for all vendor attempts to=20
> "Harmonize" hardware libraries across their embedded product lines and=20
> not be too wrong. The article you linked to sounds like any number of=20
> forum posts talking about Atmel, Microchip, TI, you name it. So far I=20
> have been happy with STM32 chips performing as they should. On another=20
> note, there's a clone of some of the STM32's. Not exactly a clone, but=20
> their version of the STM32F103 sounds pretty much drop-in except for=20
> debugging/programming:=20
> http://www.gigadevice.com/product-category/1.html Apparently it is=20
> legit. STM32 must be popular enough that it's the 32 bit embedded chip=20
> to copy.

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