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It's important to note the rest of that portion though. But even as popular as Atmel is among hobbyists, Atmel has largely stayed out of this space di
by gh02t 9y ago
It's important to note the rest of that portion though.
But even as popular as Atmel is among hobbyists, Atmel has largely stayed out of this
space directly. Instead, they’ve secured small-volume AVR sales by relying on the open-
source community to build their own tools for themselves: turning out a slew of
hardware and software used to program the megaAVR devices.
While I applaud the efforts of these developers, these tools are inferior to Atmel’s.
Their programming speeds are terrible, they don’t support the new tinyAVR 1-Series
devices, and they have absolutely no debug capability.
Atmel has deliberately enabled the open source toolchains for its MCUs but it largely keeps out of it directly.
- Stratoscope 9y agoMobile-friendly copy of the parent's quote: > Consequently, the megaAVR remains the most open-source 8-bit microcontroller on the market — by a long shot. and your quote: > But even as popular as Atmel is among hobbyists, Atmel has largely stayed out of this space directly. Instead, they’ve secured small-volume AVR sales by relying on the open-source community to build their own tools for themselves: turning out a slew of hardware and software used to program the megaAVR devices. > While I applaud the efforts of these developers, these tools are inferior to Atmel’s. Their programming speeds are terrible, they don’t support the new tinyAVR 1-Series devices, and they have absolutely no debug capability. Don't use leading spaces to quote text, that's for unformatted text. Do this instead: > *Text.*