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Z80 and PIC were pretty popular in the hobbyist embedded space before Arduino and Atmel AVR really took over in the 2000s.
by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Z80 and PIC were pretty popular in the hobbyist embedded space before Arduino and Atmel AVR really took over in the 2000s.
- megous 3y ago8-bit PICs are still quite nice. All of them up to 40-pin variants are made in DIP package, so I can put a bare package into a breadboard and have a ton of features out of the box in the right pin number configuration for the job. People should just select modern ones, and not the same old 16F84/877 or something legacy like that, that's been obsolete for like 25 years already. All of the modern ones have very uniform programming interface, nicely configurable I/O and a lot of analog features.
- Koshkin 3y agoATTiny85, too, is amazing, having only 8 pins.
- crote 3y agoPIC used to have a terrible architecture, and was barely supported by open source tooling. Heck, GCC still doesn't have PIC support, and an experimental backend was dropped from LLVM! I'm not surprised AVR ate its lunch in the hobbyist space.