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PICs [was Re: gEDA-user: wont be watching list :(]
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- From: Charles Lepple <clepple@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:13:26 -0500
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On 1/17/06, Eric Daine <daine_ep@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Right now I use PICs in everything I build. I love the PICs, and have
> spent a great deal of
> time learning about them, however, if I want to use C I am locked to a
> proprietery compiler.
> Right now I am keeping one old win98 machine going just to manage this
> code :(
didn't the SDCC PIC port ever get finished? I thought it was pretty
close a few years ago.
There's always the 8051, too... not that it's so much better than any
other processor, but because it's pretty easy to second-source.
http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
> Been thinking about moving to the Atmel line as they too like the
> Renesas chips are sort of built
> for C, from what I can gather the PICs are ineffecient in this regaurd.
the PICs with register-to-register transfers shouldn't be that bad, if
the compiler does a decent job of register allocation.
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- Charles Lepple