| ??? 08/29/11 17:12 Read: times |
#183526 - That may have been the case, but ... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Per Westermark said:
But the AVR is a dream to program in assembler, so lots of hobbyists could get going without much extra work. IIRC, one of the problems was that the assembler wasn't available at no cost until a year or so of the chip's availability, and the IAR tool set's availability as well. I know that discouraged a number of those of us who were interested at the time, and most of us don't yet have any interest in the AVR. The sad thing was that the simulator they have is (or at least was, the last time I used it) glacially slow. I ended up writing my own simulator (as a fun way of learning the chip inside out) for way more than 10 times higher simulation speed - and with peripherial mappings/simulation. I personally appreciate the avilability of a "good", or even just "adequate" simulator, as it often helps one to sort out the frequently occurring ambiguities in the instruction set description. Unfortunately, if one has to rely on the datasheet to clarify those, in order to write one's own simulator, the sorting out is left to guesswork. RE |
