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Noooo. Damn. Really loved Ateml's IDE. Microchip always charged for their IDE/compiler and I never felt like it was quite as nice to use.

phyllostachys 11y ago
RIP Atmel Studios... I can only imagine how this is going to affect choosing a microcontroller in the future. When I was in school, PIC vs AVR was often debated. I also really liked the selection of ARM Cortex-M parts that Atmel offered. I can only hope that the good parts of Atmel remain into the future.
- vvanders 11y ago
  Honestly I'll probably move to Cypress' PSoC. They're pretty nice if a tad expensive and the IDE is quite solid. Their BT devkit is quite nice.
jason_s 11y ago
??? Microchip's IDE has always been free; the XC compilers all have free versions, the only restriction being that you can't use the higher level optimizations (-O2 and -O3 for XC16 are premium; not sure about XC8 and XC32)
- vvanders 11y ago
  It's been a few years but I also remember a program size restriction on the free compiler. Honestly, it's a difference in approach to tooling, Atmel took the approach of better, freely distributed tools. Now that they won't be around I don't know that Microchip will have a competitor in that space to keep them honest.
  - jason_s 11y ago
    http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en_us/devtools/mplabxc/ http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en_us/devtools/mplabxc/ nope, just optimization. >Now that they won't be around People in this thread keep talking like this is the "death" of Atmel. I don't see it changing much other than being guided by Microchip management to meet higher profit margins. If you think that Atmel's compilers and IDE's are going to be dropped overnight in favor of MPLAB X and Microchip compilers, you are almost surely mistaken; there's a big gap between architectures so it would be a lot of work to get Microchip tools to support Atmel parts.

phyllostachys 11y ago

RIP Atmel Studios... I can only imagine how this is going to affect choosing a microcontroller in the future. When I was in school, PIC vs AVR was often debated. I also really liked the selection of ARM Cortex-M parts that Atmel offered. I can only hope that the good parts of Atmel remain into the future.

vvanders 11y ago
Honestly I'll probably move to Cypress' PSoC. They're pretty nice if a tad expensive and the IDE is quite solid. Their BT devkit is quite nice.

jason_s 11y ago

??? Microchip's IDE has always been free; the XC compilers all have free versions, the only restriction being that you can't use the higher level optimizations (-O2 and -O3 for XC16 are premium; not sure about XC8 and XC32)

vvanders 11y ago
It's been a few years but I also remember a program size restriction on the free compiler. Honestly, it's a difference in approach to tooling, Atmel took the approach of better, freely distributed tools. Now that they won't be around I don't know that Microchip will have a competitor in that space to keep them honest.
- jason_s 11y ago
  http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en_us/devtools/mplabxc/ http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en_us/devtools/mplabxc/ nope, just optimization. >Now that they won't be around People in this thread keep talking like this is the "death" of Atmel. I don't see it changing much other than being guided by Microchip management to meet higher profit margins. If you think that Atmel's compilers and IDE's are going to be dropped overnight in favor of MPLAB X and Microchip compilers, you are almost surely mistaken; there's a big gap between architectures so it would be a lot of work to get Microchip tools to support Atmel parts.