Re: Learning embedded coding, which uC?

Julian Morrison 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.


 Any of the above are fine; for the PIC, beware that there are
actaully many PIC cores, and the smaller ones have very limited opcode
reach, and use paging - so are something to be avoided.
 PIC18 has better silicon resource, the the smaller/older siblings.

 Try and get a system that supports on-chip debug, that way, you verify
in the real world....

 For the 80C51, there are good low cost, On Chip debug models here :

http://www2.silabs.com/tgwWebApp/public/web_content/products/Microcontrollers/en/mcu_developmenttools.htm

this one is cheap
http://www2.silabs.com/tgwWebApp/public/web_content/products/Microcontrollers/Precision_Mixed-Signal/en/C8051F064EK.htm

-jg

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