Hi,
I've been developing an electronic music instrument based on a Teensy (suped-up 3rd party Arduino), and am now wanting to explore the world of higher-power microcontrollers.
I want as much processing power and ram as I can get - this is all valuable when working with audio. Looking on Digi-key, the highest spec microcontrollers I can see are by Renesas and Freescale, and max out at around 400MHz and 3MB ram. Would these be my best choices?
Which company's microcontrollers would be easiest to wrap my head around developing on? I realise that they'll all be significantly harder than Teensy / Arduino, but want to learn. Things I'll want to achieve are communicating via SPI and I2S, accessing an SD card, posing as a USB MIDI device, dynamic memory allocation, and ideally allowing end-users of my products to update the microcontroller's firmware via USB.
Any recommendations or direction would be greatly appreciated
I've been developing an electronic music instrument based on a Teensy (suped-up 3rd party Arduino), and am now wanting to explore the world of higher-power microcontrollers.
I want as much processing power and ram as I can get - this is all valuable when working with audio. Looking on Digi-key, the highest spec microcontrollers I can see are by Renesas and Freescale, and max out at around 400MHz and 3MB ram. Would these be my best choices?
Which company's microcontrollers would be easiest to wrap my head around developing on? I realise that they'll all be significantly harder than Teensy / Arduino, but want to learn. Things I'll want to achieve are communicating via SPI and I2S, accessing an SD card, posing as a USB MIDI device, dynamic memory allocation, and ideally allowing end-users of my products to update the microcontroller's firmware via USB.
Any recommendations or direction would be greatly appreciated