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Paul has 20+ years of working as a digital electronics engineer and has strong software skills in assembly and C for embedded systems. Currently developing embedded electronics for thermal management control solutions for the air movement industry (HVAC & RAC).




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  • Hey Paul,

     

    I am starting out with Embedded "stuff" and I had a question. What's the deal with the various manfuactuers in terms of the chips? I want to design something that uses an ARM7 or above and I see that you can get the processor chip from Atmel, Philips, Samsung, etc.

     

    What motiviates a circuit designer to use one brand over another?

     

    Also, we would like to work in the .net MF environment. If you know of any procs that have a ported .mf framework, any insight would be appreciated. I looked at the other IDEs and don't really want to use assembly or an Embedded brand derivative of C for development. After like 8 languages, it gets crazy to go after more if you know what I mean.

     

    Many Thanks!

    Ed

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    Well the good thing is that your asking the question. There is no real answer to be totaly honest and you will get differnt answers for everyone. They all have good points and bad points. My worry however is that you have so far selected a chip but dont know what to design... I'm going to say you have started the wrong way round. But I understand where your comming from.

     

    I have a tech artical on EE_Web about chip selection that should help and explain my comment above better : http://www.eeweb.com/blog/paul_clarke/the-right-processor-for-the-right-job

     

    As for .NET I have no experiance but you will see that I suggest this should only be part of your selection process, not set in stone.

     

    I hope that helps. And good luck! image

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  • in reply to ControlGuy

    Well the good thing is that your asking the question. There is no real answer to be totaly honest and you will get differnt answers for everyone. They all have good points and bad points. My worry however is that you have so far selected a chip but dont know what to design... I'm going to say you have started the wrong way round. But I understand where your comming from.

     

    I have a tech artical on EE_Web about chip selection that should help and explain my comment above better : http://www.eeweb.com/blog/paul_clarke/the-right-processor-for-the-right-job

     

    As for .NET I have no experiance but you will see that I suggest this should only be part of your selection process, not set in stone.

     

    I hope that helps. And good luck! image

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