[dorkbotpdx-blabber] AVR Philosophy

[Donald Delmar Davis]

The mega408 is designed as part of a battery subsystem.
I had never seen a mega without a uart either.

How did you wind up starting with that chip as an introduction?

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:25 AM, John Luciani wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM, dave madden <dorkbot at mersenne.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> I gotta say, NXP and Luminary make it really easy for guys like me to
>> get started.  Atmel & Microchip are at the other end of the spectrum,
>> even if, ultimately, their chips might be better-suited for an
>> application.
>
> I agree with you about Atmel (I have not looked at Microchip).
> TI and Freescale (was Motorola) do a much better job at
> documenting and presenting their devices.
>
> Atmel has done an excellent job of building a community of users.
>
> (* jcl *)
>
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