Swordfish

with the ARM, you can scale your application up to 144-pin, 1mB Flash, 6kB RAM

What are some of these projects which make use of 144-pin, 1mB Flash, 6kB RAM ARM?
PIC32 also has the larger capacity but I'm not sure what it would be used for.

Norm

There is a strong market for smaller pin micro's as Microchip is the sales leader in 8 bit micro's.

Norm

What is the concern for pin count and SMD ?

64 pins is usually more than what is needed and it's nice to be able
to plunk down an 18 or 28 pin Dip package on a breadboard and start programming.

Norm

ARM pluses: ARM can go as low as around 44 pins or large enough to run Linux. It's code (C) is portable as well as the hardware as several manufacturers provide ARM chips. It's 16/32 bit and DigiKey lists one ARM as high as 800MHz. As such some consider it the "industry standard". I think though I w...

One nice thing about PIC is you can plunk down an 18 or 28 pin Dip package and start programming.
Arm has no small pin count or DIP packages.
Neither does PIC32 that I know of.

Norm

I did a quick C PIC compiler price comparison. Addition's and corrections please. Microchip C Compilers and IDE http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en534868 MPLAB C Compiler for PIC18 MCUs $500 MPLAB C Compiler for PIC24 MCUs $500 MPLAB C Compiler for...

If I may steal a little bandwidth a alternative to C for ARM is Armaide.
It's Oberon-07 code is Pascal and is very similar to Delphi (windows apps).

Direct technical support from the author.

Norm

I don't think a proton version for pic 24 will be released soon.

Probably not.

Norm

Quote: Proton is working on a PIC24 basic version Norm do you know this for sure? I would not hold my breath on that. As follows: Norm 15th December 2009 04:06 Les Proton Compiler Developer Trying to place words in my mouth or force a happening is not going to be succesful. Workloads have delayed t...

Thanks for the info. I am aware of these 2: http://www.coridiumcorp.com/Programming3.php http://www.hbbrbasic.com/documentation/hbbr-basic-v2000.html Coridium is an interpreter not compiled code (slower). Coridium is a stamp ($$each) not sure about HBBR. MikroElectonica and Bascom are both slowly w...

a BASIC for ARM is something that may soon happen from another source I found two companies working on a Basic compiler for Arm both due within a year (2007). I believe they are still in progress. No small accomplishment. Having just started in MPLAB C18 I am having difficulty finding C code exampl...

The MPLAB IDE pales in comparison to the LPC IDE I saw a check box allowing an external text editor in MPLAB IDE. You could possibly use your LPC IDE if you choose although not all of the features would work with PIC. I wonder if their are other external editors which would fully support MPLAB C18 ...

Much as I hate to move to C, it looks like it may be time to take the plunge. I would rather stay with SF as it is much nicer to use, but like dmtulsa, I cannot wait any longer. I also am moving to C. The ever expanding Microchip libraries especially for connectivity such as Ethernet, USB, Can, Wif...

I have not gone to far into your code, though I noticed that you are calling ADC.read from inside the interrupt. AD.Read is a blocking call that will take time to complete. Perhaps setting the ADC conversion start bit within the interrupt would be a better solution? Or perhaps start the AD at the e...

I have discovered the programming parameters to program using Pickit3 directly from the IDE. I downloaded Microchip MPLAB latest 8.4, uninstalled previous version and installed new to its default directory. MPLAB automatically upgraded the firmware of the Pickit3 on first run. The Programmer name fo...