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I never understood the attraction of PIC in the face of ARM. The ecosystem seemed so much weaker in terms of compilers, libraries, and sheer variety of parts av
by berti 8y ago
I never understood the attraction of PIC in the face of ARM. The ecosystem seemed so much weaker in terms of compilers, libraries, and sheer variety of parts available.
- 01100011 8y agoIIRC, PIC appealed to those embedded/EE guys because it was simple. It was also really cheap. You could add a tiny bit of smarts to your design for a little bit of money and effort. Those guys became well-versed in the PIC weirdness and stuck with it even though other, more traditional(i.e. 8051 based) micros came out with good features at nice price points. I don't remember a lot of cheap, easy to use options based on ARM around the time that the first PICs came out. Honestly I'm not sure though. I skipped the PIC entirely. I dealt with Z8's and 68HC12s at the time(and TMS320s, but that's another story).