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Question of the Month: What is the most important element when choosing a microcontroller to be used in a project?

dychen
dychen over 3 years ago

e14 Question of the Month

We're interested in finding out what considerations are most important to you when choosing a microcontroller. Take the poll and let us know, and please tell us why in the Comments section below!

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    DAB over 3 years ago

    There are many factors that influence your selection.

    Most important are requirements and cost of the development capability.

    Back when I was doing embedded systems, the cost of the development system often drove the selection, though not always.

    The company wanted to standardize on one processor family, but we kept pointing out that the one they wanted to use would not meet the customers requirements.

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    DAB over 3 years ago

    There are many factors that influence your selection.

    Most important are requirements and cost of the development capability.

    Back when I was doing embedded systems, the cost of the development system often drove the selection, though not always.

    The company wanted to standardize on one processor family, but we kept pointing out that the one they wanted to use would not meet the customers requirements.

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    dougw over 3 years ago in reply to DAB

    I had forgotten how expensive those early development systems were - astronomical for a starving student.

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