Linux and PIC development

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Peter Hiscocks wrote:

> Not to start a religious war, but there are other microprocessors with the
> same functionality as the PIC but with much nicer architectures. The PIC
> requires bank switching of registers and page switching of memory, which can
> get ugly. (On the other hand, programming it in C hides many of these
> features.) I ported a medium-sized assembly language program from the
> Motorola 68HC11 to a pic processor, and it was not fun. The assembly
> language is not as easy to read as some other devices.

Correct. I actually use pics for bit-banging applications, because the
timing is very predictable, and atmel and others for anything else.

Peter
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