Re: Learning embedded coding, which uC?

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:08:22 +0100, Julian Morrison <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I am teaching myself embedded programming as a career move. Could
>somebody tell me which microcontroller(s) are most popular in the
>industry right now? I've found tons of resources for eg: 8051, PIC, ARM
>- but I'm not sure what's most likely to land a job.

Learn one thoroughly - doesn't really matter which - once you get used to micro programming
techniques in general, learning a new chip doesn't take much effort.
PIC has the advantage of a quickly-memorized instruction set and vast amount of free resources.
Probably best to start on 8 bit as skills scale better upwards than down.
Learning assembler will make you able to write much better C code when you move onto bigger systems
as you will have a much better understanding of the underlying hardware.



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