Towards the end of AVR ?

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Towards the end of AVR ?

· Posted: 27.02.2016 - 21:28 · #1

Hello,
Microchip bought Atmel. Do you think this is the end of Atmel microcontrollers?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01….html?_r=0
It's a shame that there is not a Pascal compiler for PIC as good as AVRco ...

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Re: Towards the end of AVR ?

· Posted: 28.02.2016 - 11:05 · #2

I dont think that anyone will buy anything with a lot of money just to destroy it ...

and to your second question: have you ever programmed both types of controllers in their machine language?

We made some simple projects on a PIC12C508 - it has 3 levels of stack, automatically pushing/poping the return adress, and one separate Flag register for INTs, also automatic handled on INT / RETI nothing else.
Try to do something like nested procedure calls or interrupts on such a system.

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Re: Towards the end of AVR ?

· Posted: 28.02.2016 - 11:55 · #3

Yes, I also think μChip will maintain the existing range of AVR, but I doubt it creates other chips in the Atmel philosophy.
And no, I've never developed on PIC μC, only on Atmel. What you say does not make me a lot to try this...

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Re: Towards the end of AVR ?

· Posted: 28.02.2016 - 14:45 · #4

Hi Toronado,

yes, there is a big rumor in the WEB.
I think it makes no sense killing the Atmel devices to remove a strong
competitor.
Look at the standard PICs, brainless devices. And their 32 bit are MIPS types.
Not really a competition to the ARMs.
I think they need good 8bits (AVR) and good 32bits (ARM) from Atmel.

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Re: Towards the end of AVR ?

· Posted: 29.02.2016 - 11:21 · #5

Arduino and free C compiler are the golden goose who Microchip is not going to kill. If we try to be optimistic for a second, the best scenario I can think of would be to lower prices (Microchip has it's own fabs), increase peripherals in new models, and bring DIP even for most powerful models.

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