Hector Martin

Like Brainfuck.

avr emulator on pic? :trollface:

If I decide that I hate myself enough to actually try to do this, what is the most usable PIC devboard in the current decade?

To be fair, they're talking about 8-bit PIC. The 16-bit families (PIC24/dsPIC3x) are a much saner register based architecture. And PIC32 is just MIPS.

The thing is there is zero reason to use a dsPIC or a PIC32 over some random ARM as far as I can tell. And I wouldn't call dsPIC "sane"... I tried using them once...

Price. Bottom end PIC is still worth using when you need a CPU that’s <$0.30 in lowish quantities.

If you need a really cheap micro though, you go for chinese stuff. And dsPICs certainly aren't $.30, more like $1.80 all the way up to $10+. At that price point, just use ARM.

Absolutely. Can’t think of any reason at all to use the dsPIC. For the really cheap chinese stuff, there’s a weird gap where ordering 20 is fine but order 400 and suddenly you end up in lead times from hell. A lot of what I do is exactly in that range.