Re: Moving from 8051 to AVR

This simply is not true. The most significant commercial driver in
electronics today is unit cost and that is directly related to Bill of
Materials and hence microcontroller cost.

Disagree, the most significant driver is Time To Market.
If cost was the main driver, then people would take time to do optimized
custom chips.
Many don't, even if they have volume motivating the development of chips.
They select from available circuits on cost, but then cost is second in
priority, not first.


There is an infrequently mentioned case -- that of the toolset's
availability for long product lifetimes where the continuity of a wide
variety of factors (programmers, company ownership, and the very
existence of the tool vendor, for example) is all in question. If I
select a C compiler vendor who uses a form of copy protection tied to
the disk drive or cpu, for example, and issues a license for a
particular machine -- what then happens when a client calls me up 5
years later and wants a new modification made?

If you have can save $0.5M earlier, then you surely put some money in the
bank for a support contract...
You have less chance of saving money if you are limited to the architecture
supported by your assembler.
assembler= less competition.
Changing to a new C compiler can be very quick and low cost (gcc ?)

I do understand that people refusing to use high level languages
might be less than fascinated by RISC processors...


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Best Regards,
Ulf Samuelsson
This is intended to be my personal opinion which may,
or may bot be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB


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