I am seriously considering dumping the PIC and going with the ARM.

 The superior ARM interrupt handling has finally caught up with the
 Superkim.
 It has only taken 40 years :)

 Everybody agreed the 6502 was great at handling interrupts. The
 predecessor of the
 ARM was the Acorn and that was patterned after the 6502.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

 The 6502 was used in a zillion hard disk drives back in the old days.

 Interrupts are most important when it comes to controlling mechanical
 devices.

 I love it.

 For the past month I have been investigating new processors in a highly
 competitivemarket place. A very complex subject.

 Paul Lamar

 My check is in the mail now.

 Zoltan


 The ARM appears to be winning. It is found in just about every cell phone
 and tablet
 on the market.Mikro has a BASIC for it but the manual is not yet
 available.
 Lots of examples of code are however.

 Paul Lamar

 Sorry about the Bascom. I checked with them and they only support 8
 bit AVR. So not support for it with 32 bit.

 I would definitely go with your suggestion on ARM. Since it is very
 readily available in the market.

 Henry

Have a look at NXP processors.  They are ARM.  The have free dev tools and
low cost dev boards.  A very powerful and fast processor is the LPC 1769
Digi-Key sells them.  There are smaller versions of the chip like the
LPC11xx  series.  They are screaming fast, simple development, and lots of
sample and peripheral software.

Cost is reasonable.  Lots of ports available.  Counters, PWM, A/D.  It's got
it all.

Rick Irwin
using a 20b rotary on a Cozy.

Thanks for tip Rick. I have some stuff (docs) on the NXP ARM already. What do you
think of the Ti version? That is the version Mikro is supporting with their BASIC
compiler.

Paul Lamar


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