Re: Moving from 8051 to AVR

Ian Bell wrote:
Ulf Samuelsson wrote:


I think you have to remember Ulf works for Atmel; presumably they
want to push their own technology (AVR) rather than one they second
source. Could well be a bad call when the ARM takes over the lions
share of the embedded market.

Ian

Atmel was the first company to promote ARM as a standard
Microcontroller. Where's the problem ;-)


Er, surely that's obvious - two of your three microcontroller product
lines will be obsolete.


You may want to watch your back...
Jim Granville could be behind you...

Don't think the AVR will be obsolete anytime soon.

Assuming the same technology, and not too high pincount,
AVR chips should always be lower cost than ARM chips simply due
to the fact that it has 8 bit datapath.
Wide datapaths use quite a lot of silicon.

When you are looking at 100-200 pin chips this does not matter.
When you are looking at 8-32 pin chips it does.


Ian




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Ulf Samuelsson
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may or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB


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