leon_heller:
On the other hand…
Thanks for the response, can you expand on what you mean by a nicer architecture & easier to program?
With 131 assy instructions I can see how things are easier to comprehend at the assy level than pics 24 but I dont ever deal with assy mostly because L & W registers and if zeros hurt my brain…
Easier to program? I only see the pic’s drawback there as the low voltage, 5v or 12v’s needed in different cases. I assume the entire avr line is quit standardized. Im still doing research but most everything I know from pics is through experience.
One thing I dislike is the fact I ALWAYS need my pic’s manual out to set up the interrupts, ADCON, prescalers, etc as the names of the settings are the same but the bit set order is always different. So when my 16f877a died I would need to re-write alot of things if I where to use the 18f452 instead.
I hate MPLAB sooo much, its got terrible window management inside itself which alone is enough of a pain in the neck to not use it. It is nice that everything is open and available to see how they implemented it but that ide…
Are their many diy/cheep(~$20) programmers available for the AVR Studio? most diy/cheep pic programmers ar not compatible with MPLAB which is another reason I never use it.
Thanks.