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Which Microcontroller?

rishi2628

I am a college student and I want to do a course on embedded system but i can't decide which microcontroller to choose. I already know AVR very well. Please help me decide out of PIC and ARM microcontroller. Which one is better and would help me boost my CV?

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  • I'd go with ARM.  There are dozens of semiconductor vendors selling ARM processors of various sizes and prices and power consumption, so you have lots of flexibility.  There are also lots of cheap ARM development boards.  With PIC you have a single vendor.

     

    ARM is a fun architecture.  There are many variants so you get to learn all sorts of fun things like Thumb and Thumb-2, not to mention the 64-bit ARMv8.  ARM is a whole computer architecture course all in one family image

     

    JMO/YMMV

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    but sir this is arm microcontroller not arm processor. Should i still go with ARM?

  • in reply to rishi2628

    To clarify a bit, The ARM instructions can be used with Axx microprocessors and with Mx microcontrollers. The TI version is a microcontroller(M3) with 43 pins supporting digital, analog, uart(serial), I2C, SPI , and PWM interfaces. They even support ADC as well as DAC interfaces. The other choice is ATMEL like Arduino flavors. These are mostly hobbyists. Pic is another set from MicroChips.

     

    Hope this helps,

    Clem

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  • in reply to rishi2628

    To clarify a bit, The ARM instructions can be used with Axx microprocessors and with Mx microcontrollers. The TI version is a microcontroller(M3) with 43 pins supporting digital, analog, uart(serial), I2C, SPI , and PWM interfaces. They even support ADC as well as DAC interfaces. The other choice is ATMEL like Arduino flavors. These are mostly hobbyists. Pic is another set from MicroChips.

     

    Hope this helps,

    Clem

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