Poll on what common microcontroller company that you use ? ONLY ONE !

• Poll on what common microcontroller company that you use ? ONLY ONE !
  Posted by ez24 on 29 Nov, 2016 01:33
• Edit:  Added "company" to the title
  
  Edit:  Apology
  
  Sorry I did not see the max entries in the set up - See Pic with most options
  
  After I posted it, I have few options (no max entries) - See Pic with few options
  
  I cannot delete the whole thing.  If a moderator wishes to delete the whole show, I do not mind and if they do, and I will redo this poll and set the max to 4 per vote       (I feel dumb - sorry - I hope this dies a fast death).  So if someone has some pull with a moderator and can delete the whole show, I will redo it with fewer selections but more votes.  thanks
  
  But so far I am surprised it is Atmel, I thought it would be Microchip and I am sad that NXP is so low. 
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  Came across this list of microcontrollers:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_microcontrollers
  
  So I wonder what MCUs members use
  
  Notice that there are 35 common MCUs, so it makes me wonder how many total there are?

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• #1 Reply
  Posted by Sal Ammoniac on 29 Nov, 2016 02:02
• This poll isn't very useful because it only lets you make one choice. I use at least a half dozen microcontrollers from several companies.
• #2 Reply
  Posted by jonovid on 29 Nov, 2016 02:12
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  This poll isn't very useful because it only lets you make one choice. I use at least a half dozen microcontrollers from several companies.

  maybe Dave can have the Poll app or forum app upgraded?
• #3 Reply
  Posted by danadak on 29 Nov, 2016 02:58
• I agree with prior posters, real useful data should allow one to
  vote for more than 1, you could consider a weighted usage for the
  surveyee's choices as well.
  
  
  Regards, Dana.
• #4 Reply
  Posted by ez24 on 29 Nov, 2016 03:39
• Quote from: danadak on 29 Nov, 2016 02:58

  I agree with prior posters, real useful data should allow one to
  vote for more than 1, you could consider a weighted usage for the
  surveyee's choices as well.
  
  Regards, Dana.
  

  
  As far as I can tell multiple votes at the same time is not a choice (would be a good idea).  But I believe I set it up to allow more than one vote, so I assume that means you have to re-log in to vote again.
  
  
• #5 Reply
  Posted by chicken on 29 Nov, 2016 03:58
• Also, these are companies not MCUs. TI and many others have multiple very different MCU families.
• #6 Reply
  Posted by hans on 29 Nov, 2016 10:37
• Indeed, this makes choice hard. I voted for STM, because in general if there was 1 MCU manufacturer left on earth I would be most happy with their product lines.
  
  However, if you narrow it down to only 8 to 16-bit CPU's for small projects, I would have picked Microchip/Atmel.
• #7 Reply
  Posted by RoGeorge on 29 Nov, 2016 11:42
• Those are brands, not MCUs.
  Anyway, only 1 Atmel out of 36 votes looks unexpected to me.
• #8 Reply
  Posted by Jeroen3 on 29 Nov, 2016 12:03
• I solely use STM32F lately. Because if you know one, you basically know all. And they have a large collection of sizes and shaped to fit all uses.
  Sometimes I maintain some Silabs 8051 cores, but it's 10 years back in time compared to ARM on the level of compiler and debugging.
• #9 Reply
  Posted by westfw on 29 Nov, 2016 12:04
• "Atmel" doesn't exist any more :-)  (acquired by Microchip)
  Freescale (acquired by NXP), National Semiconductor (acquired by TI), NEC (merged into Renesas), Fujitsu (acquired by Spansion (?)), and Ubicom (sort-of acquired by Parallax), and Rockwell, are also gone.
  Lattice, Xilinx, and Altera do not offer "microcontrollers" per se.
  I'm not sure about some of the others.  That wikipedia page could use some editing!
• #10 Reply
  Posted by RoGeorge on 29 Nov, 2016 12:12
• Quote from: westfw on 29 Nov, 2016 12:04

  "Atmel" doesn't exist any more :-)  (acquired by Microchip)
  Freescale (acquired by NXP), National Semiconductor (acquired by TI), NEC (merged into Renesas), Fujitsu (acquired by Spansion (?)), and Ubicom (sort-of acquired by Parallax), and Rockwell, are also gone.
  Lattice, Xilinx, and Altera do not offer "microcontrollers" per se.
  I'm not sure about some of the others.  That wikipedia page could use some editing!
  

  
  I guess Atmel brand still exists, but it is owned by Microchip now.
  Also, Altera was bought by Intel.
• #11 Reply
  Posted by jnz on 29 Nov, 2016 22:44
• Nordic Semi missing, and that's what I'm going to sell the most of.
• #12 Reply
  Posted by mikeselectricstuff on 30 Nov, 2016 00:03
• Lattice don't do MCUs
• #13 Reply
  Posted by mac.6 on 30 Nov, 2016 14:53
• You can merge Freescale into NXP (and soon Qualcomm) as they are one entity now.
• #14 Reply
  Posted by 22swg on 30 Nov, 2016 16:58
• Only ticked one , no grey cells left for more ...  
  
  ( could have voted for RCA1802 , but missing ! )
• #15 Reply
  Posted by ^_^ on 16 Dec, 2016 14:36
• It's really worth knowing some of them, because all the MCUs have different features.
  
  Till recently I've used Atmel, TI and STM.
  Atmels are pretty simple when you stay on the Atmega/attiny level (no ARM). And cheap.
  TI has so many it's hard to even tell, but MSP430/432 is definitely low power stuff. They have a lot of MCUs with their analog stuff, like special ADCs, RF etc.
  STM seems more integrated as their families are more staightforward.
  
  But after visiting electronica fair, which is extremely big, I see what you miss out not even knowing other guys.
  For example Cypress was really impressive, as they have FPGA-like thing along with MCU, so the chip can do a lot of things in hardware and you program it using blocks like in simulink.