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Parallax Propeller, why is it so overlooked?

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So the parallax propeller is a 32bit 8 core micro. It is what I learned to electronics/embedded coding with! Its basically like having 8 AVR chips in one and never needing an interrupt. Currently im taking the time to learn PASM or Propeller Assembly. I curious as to why there aren't more of these out in the wild? Im also learning ARM and would one day like to switch from electrical to embedded as a career.... but I feel like I am wasting my time with this chip even though its great especially for industrial and robotics multitasking at the bear metal level. I never see a propeller chip in a job discretion or in a product. To me the prop is very close to a software defined CPLD as is maybe the XMOS.

 

What do you all think about the propeller chip?

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  • Given there will be a learning curve with any device, if I had to choose between the two, based on current information I'd pick XMOS because the development environment has a C compiler, the process synchronisation is POSIX-like so familiar to software developers, the development boards are cheaper ($12.50, and is raspberry-pi compatible), the parts are more powerful and faster, and there is recent silicon so that provides roadmap assurance. XMOS is used in commercial designs, for example a lot of high-end audio devices use XMOS.

    Not knocking Parallax Propeller, I don't know it well enough and I'm sure it must be in commercial designs too to keep Parallax in business, and it does look like an interesting part but XMOS are more interesting to me.

     

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  • Given there will be a learning curve with any device, if I had to choose between the two, based on current information I'd pick XMOS because the development environment has a C compiler, the process synchronisation is POSIX-like so familiar to software developers, the development boards are cheaper ($12.50, and is raspberry-pi compatible), the parts are more powerful and faster, and there is recent silicon so that provides roadmap assurance. XMOS is used in commercial designs, for example a lot of high-end audio devices use XMOS.

    Not knocking Parallax Propeller, I don't know it well enough and I'm sure it must be in commercial designs too to keep Parallax in business, and it does look like an interesting part but XMOS are more interesting to me.

     

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