Re: Looking for a bit of guidance

Chr15 wrote:
Hia, first time poster, long time fan of this site and its multiple links
to all things useful :)


This is not a website, it's a Usenet newsgroup (look up these terms in wikipedia).

Anyway, Ive been handed a project around the MPC5604P processor from
Freescale, with no documentation on it to speak of (in-fact it took me
about a week to derive the Freescale part number from its ST roots).


My first recommendation is to hand the project back. You are *way* out of your depth here, and need a lot more help than some advice in a newsgroup. The Freescale MPC5xxx microcontrollers are a very different league from small 8-bit PICs - they are much more powerful, and much more complex. And assuming that the chip is appropriate to the task in hand, the software and hardware for this project will be far beyond anything using a PIC.

Try to get on some sort of course regarding these devices, and expect to spend a long time learning about them. Also expect a great deal of frustration and battles as you try to get your programs working and find that there are lots of small details that you don't have to think about for small microcontrollers.

Of course, if you have the time and money to spend getting up to speed, they are fun devices.
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