Actions
Forum Thread Details
  • Replies 1 reply
  • Subscribers 483 subscribers
  • Views 297 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Related

EDN: "The Most Popular MCUs ever"?

fustini

I enjoyed this article from EDN:

The most-popular MCUs ever

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/systems-interface/4419922/Slideshow--The-most-popular-MCUs-ever

We all might have fond (or maybe not so fond) memories of the first MCU we used, but where does that device and the many others that you may have also used and read about. So we asked MCU manufacturers to tell us which of their MCU lines has been the most popular ever and list their selections in this slideshow.


But are these the MCUs you'd choose as the most popular? Take a look at each participating MCU manufacturer's top MCU - and then tell us which you'd call the most-popular. Or if another MCU not listed here deserves to be called the most popular, tell us!

 

For me, my favorites would be the AVR and the PIC16... how about you?

 

cheers,

drew

  • I like the 16-bit TI MSP430 because its instruction set reminds me of the PDP-11, my all-time favorite.  Unfortunately, I've never actually played with an MSP430 because current and recent projects have all been 32-bit processors, and FPGAs.  So maybe I'll form a different opinion once I actually get a chance to use it for something image

     

    AVR is pretty good -- I've played with it at the assembly language level.  I did tons of 8080 ASM in my youth, but once I replaced my 8080-based Heathkit H-8 with a 68000-based Atari 520 ST, there was no looking back nostalgically at 8-bit accumulators.  68000 is very much like a 32-bit PDP-11, so lots of joy there.