| ??? 12/27/10 15:01 Read: times |
#180298 - It's not as convenient now as it once was Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Per Westermark said:
Richard said:
The fact that the architecture is single-sourced should give any developer pause. Not so sure. If you look around, you'll find that a huge percentage of all electronics in production contains a number of single-source components. Since a number of years, the sharing of designs between manufacturers have almost totally died away. While many 805x-core types are single-sourced, they allow for the use of the same tools as others. That's not true of AVR's, as they're single-sourced. I don't see that as a good thing. With 805x, I can use the same tools with simple, tiny parts as with very highly integrated, large-pin-count parts. While that may be true of all the single-sourced AVR variants, all of which are from the same manufacturer, if I have trouble with a distributor, AVR doesn't allow me to switch distributors so easily as with a family that has more than one manufacturer. It's not as convenient as it once was with multi-sourced parts, but 805x still offers considerably more flexibility than AVR. RE |
