Dear colleagues, good Afternoon.
In the past (20+ years ago) I've been doing small projects with 8051, Z80 and some PICs. Now I'm coming back to microcontrollers projects and I'd like to ask you some advises. I'm about to choose a platform to work (microcontroller family, programming interface and an IDE).
I've been looking around and I've been finding some hard time here and there. Would you help me with your comments?
1) Microchip PIC would be my favorite, but:
1.1) the IDE is now too big and complicated. I've been trying, but unlike the older MPLabs, the 10th version requires so much "bureaucracy" to open a programming window! I guess I'll always need to watch YouTube tutorials every new project I start!
1.2) Microchip C compillers have no free version anymore! Is it true? If it is, I aught to give it up with Microchip.
1.3) Which hardware programming and debugging interface would be enough for small single processors projects?
2) (Microchip) Atmel AVR:
2.1) No Mac OS Version IDE! Is it true? I'm afraid I'll have to install it in virtual machine.
2.2) Does it offer C/C++ free programming compiller?
2.3) Which hardware programming and debugging interface would be enough for small single processors projects?
3) Texas Instruments?
4) Zilog?
5) NXP?
A very important characteristic is to find DIP and PDIP versions available.
Thank you.
Regards,
Ciro.
In the past (20+ years ago) I've been doing small projects with 8051, Z80 and some PICs. Now I'm coming back to microcontrollers projects and I'd like to ask you some advises. I'm about to choose a platform to work (microcontroller family, programming interface and an IDE).
I've been looking around and I've been finding some hard time here and there. Would you help me with your comments?
1) Microchip PIC would be my favorite, but:
1.1) the IDE is now too big and complicated. I've been trying, but unlike the older MPLabs, the 10th version requires so much "bureaucracy" to open a programming window! I guess I'll always need to watch YouTube tutorials every new project I start!
1.2) Microchip C compillers have no free version anymore! Is it true? If it is, I aught to give it up with Microchip.
1.3) Which hardware programming and debugging interface would be enough for small single processors projects?
2) (Microchip) Atmel AVR:
2.1) No Mac OS Version IDE! Is it true? I'm afraid I'll have to install it in virtual machine.
2.2) Does it offer C/C++ free programming compiller?
2.3) Which hardware programming and debugging interface would be enough for small single processors projects?
3) Texas Instruments?
4) Zilog?
5) NXP?
A very important characteristic is to find DIP and PDIP versions available.
Thank you.
Regards,
Ciro.
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