Author Topic: HELP! What MCU (greater than 8-bits of smarts) is easiest to graduate to?  (Read 58677 times)

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Offline paulie

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Re: HELP! What MCU (greater than 8-bits of smarts) is easiest to graduate to?
« Reply #225 on: October 14, 2014, 08:21:39 pm »
the $0.29 PSoC4000 will probably see use in future i2c slave projects

Yes, but that's dannyy-bucks. After currency conversion to USD a lot more.

I agree these are cool chips and there may be some advantage in board space but from what I can tell little cost advantage over cheap external op amps. In fact can't begin to compete with Microchip and other high quality R-R dual op amps available for pennies.
 

Offline miguelvp

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Re: HELP! What MCU (greater than 8-bits of smarts) is easiest to graduate to?
« Reply #226 on: October 14, 2014, 08:31:19 pm »
For what is worth, the exported projects to Keil uVision keeps all the UDB configuration, so it's done by software, meaning you can access everything directly if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

And you can use GCC as the destination compiler as well, so there is no magic dust in these chips, just more configurable.
 

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Re: HELP! What MCU (greater than 8-bits of smarts) is easiest to graduate to?
« Reply #227 on: October 14, 2014, 08:39:19 pm »
Oh yeah... I forgot to mention that. Probably the biggest advantage of PSOC is ability to swap pins around and play with logic. Definitely gives board designers who might not get things right the first time some wiggle room. For hobbyists I think it's mostly the cool factor.
 


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