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As an Atmel customer, what does it mean to me? Will nothing change? Will Atmel's (or is it Dialog's ?) micro-controllers will become even more power efficient?
by trymas 11y ago
As an Atmel customer, what does it mean to me?
Will nothing change? Will Atmel's (or is it Dialog's ?) micro-controllers will become even more power efficient?
- voltagex_ 11y agoHell, what happens to Arduino?
- stephen_g 11y agoEven if they stopped making AVRs together, there are plenty of other (arguably better) MCUs on the market anyway. At the company I work for, we've replaced all the Atmega chips in our products with the STM32F0 series chips for lower-end requirements and with STM32F4 series for higher end stuff, because they have more grunt and generally have more peripherals, and are similar prices.
- meragrin 11y agoAre there any which are easily used breadboard style project?
- wanderingjew 11y agoNXP's (and now Freescale's) LPC1100 are ARM Cortex M0 processors available in DIP packages. IIRC, NXP is the only one making DIP ARMs, but breakout boards exist....
- hga 11y agoThere are indeed a bunch of them. Here's the ones STM provides: http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532 http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532
- elsjaako 11y agoHow many MCUs have the same strong, libre toolchain?
- nascentmind 11y agoFree GCC tool chains are present for the TI MSP430, TI Tiva Series C (Cortex M4) and also TI Hercules (Cortex M3) series. Apart from that I have tried STM32F4 series with GCC tool chains. I have personally developed Bluetooth stack using the GCC tools for the MSP430 using the CC246x Bluetooth modules and it was a blast. So you have a lot of options with free tool chains. I personally use only free toolchains on linux. It is the best development setup and you have a lot of options for debugging and tool development.
- trymas 11y agoAccording to user qq66, probably nothing. Though if Dialog is power management IC company, maybe Atmel's microcontrollers or Atmel based boards will have better power management features and/or be more power efficient?
- qq66 11y agoMost likely, nothing. This seems to be a channel-driven acquisition. Dialog wants to put Atmel products in its sales channels and its own products in Atmel's sales channels. And it looks like the product lines don't overlap much, so there shouldn't be significant anticompetitive effects.