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yeah, my first experience with microcontrollers was PIC too. these days AVR is starting to become more popular, fortunately.
I learned microcontrollers with the venerable PIC16F84 and descendants, way before Arduino was a thing. It took me over 15 years years to finally jump ship to AVRs for random small projects. Please don't use PICs. For anything. There is literally no metric where they are ideal.
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I have a question based on a lack of experience. I started with PIC's & we found for low frequency audio, the PIC could generate a pretty decent waveform for what we needed (sorry forgot the hz) When we tried this with the arduino's, It didn't go so well. Has this changed?
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When I say it didn't go well, I mean it was a horrible approximation of a sine wave from the arduino, and the PIC did it fairly adequately.
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Literally no metric? Power consumption, DIP availability, analog peripheral selection, cross-platform vendor-supported tooling, interrupt latency, code density, ease of programming, pin remappability, short-run factory programming, code-gen tools, low-cost debuggers...
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Any progression that AVR had made on these fronts is on the coattails of the Microchip acquisition. I'm by no means a PIC apologist, but they have their place, and I've definitely used them sporadically through the years.
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Same! I switched to STM32, but yes.
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TBH it was quite easy to get free samples for all models, which probably helped many people to get started with these chips. I dont think I ever paid for any PIC microcontroller I used, in fact :D
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Annoyingly, in Uni, we were taught to program specific programs in op code for PICs. This was... 5 years ago? Bit more? Not at all representative of industry.
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