Ah, photo vs. AVR, the never-ending battle of electronic style supremacy. Some people vow by Atmel’s AVR microcontrollers, while others are wrong. [majenko] is firmly planted in Microchip’s photo camp, so he composed up a great comparison of Atmel’s AVR versus Microchip’s photo household of microcontrollers. The results aren’t that surprising; photo microcontrollers come out as a much better product that no hobbyist utilizes since no hobbyist utilizes them.
Atmel as well as their series of AVR microcontrollers has seen a big boost in popularity in the hobbyist market in the last few years, no question thanks to the Arduino as well as other AVR-powered dev boards. This isn’t to state Microchip as well as photo haven’t seen their time in the lime light; there was a time when you might really get electronic elements at Radio Shack, including kits consisting of Microchip’s extremely prominent however somewhat dated fundamental Stamp.
After going over the abilities of the Atmel AVR ATMega328p, the likewise equipped Microchip’s PIC PIC18F25K80, as well as TI’s MSP430G2533, [majenko] discovered the perennial favorite, the AVR, lacked in some extremely crucial categories. The AVR has a lower resolution ADC, fewer PWM pins, fewer 16-bit timers, while costing about $0.75 more.
Of program [majenko]’s analysis doesn’t take into account the intangibles of selecting a photo over an AVR. thanks to the Arduino’s adoption of the AVR, there are many, lots of a lot more code as well as schematic examples floating around on the Web for just about every job imaginable. The advancement tools for photo are a bit a lot more costly than their AVR equivalents; A PICkit2 runs about $50 while AVR ISP programmers can be discovered just about anywhere for pocket change.
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