DSPIC Support

[mister_e]

Fanie,
Just a little example... how many times we saw, see and we will see in the future, people using 20 mhz or higher speed crystal for simple task where 4MHZ is often too much or just enough? How many time we see here some task that should be done without any PIC...

Same for DsPIC i guess. Yeah they're great, Fast, quite reliable about the pricing, and have tons of ring and bells (a few much than 18F). But thinking never killed anybody on this earth when capable of. Few cents, dollars much on a single parts when you build few thousand/millions units... Same for extra i/o, pcb design ... you know.

So unless i really need for extreme speed for a really specific task, i'll use them... but they're also young on the market for now. I just leave other having problems with before

Oh, how about future DsPIC support in your other compiler?

LMAO!!!!

[fanie]

Hallo Steve,

>>Oh, how about future DsPIC support in your other compiler?

Seems it's going to be a while still - keep in mind it's not even supported by the C's yet...

[mister_e]

It seems you need an update. Yeah it's support by some C compiler. If it wasn't i'd never ever waste my time in assembler... I used Hi-Tech C in the past.

http://www.htsoft.com/products/dspicccompiler.php

http://www.iar.com/index.php?show=98...7/p987_eng.php

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...&part=SW006012

I think some other crap one support them but i'll never say their name. Oh OK, just the the first 3 letter MIK.

[GeoJoe]

I mangaged to get my project running with assembler. It took a lot of effort and time. In fact, I hated it.
I guess what I want from a development platform is the security of knowing that I have invested time and money into something that will carry me into the future. Microcontroller technology will continue to grow. I'd like to not learn a new system every time a new controller comes out. I'd rather concentrate on implementing the advanced features of the micro. That's better than de-bugging new code. Does anyone think that new micro's get a bad rap for some time when they come out (Silicon bugs aside) because people don't know how to use them?

[mister_e]

The Microchip C compiler may be free but give real limitation and i'm not a fan of that one... as some here.

In fact, if someone should learn only one language that cover every PIC in the whole Microchip familly and have all the cash to spend on a compiler for support and upgrade, Hi-Tech C PICC Enterprise Edition would be the smart choice. BUT as most here use 12F, 16F,18F and sometime 10F... i bet Melabs PicBasic, or some other, is more than enough.

Assembler is free, but a real pain to code with. Well at least i can't imagine to do some 32K or more ONLY in assembler