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Re: Microchip makes a jump over all other CPU makers

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On 6/11/2013 1:27 PM, 7 wrote:
> Microchip makes a jump over all other CPU makers
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Microchip has just released a chip
>
>   http://www.microchip.com/get/eu5vmicrostick
>
> that makes a jump over all other competing CPUs.
>

No it doesn't.  It is just a 16-bit cpu.
No competition at all to other chip makers in regards to PCs.

> Despite being a tiny chip, it connects directly to PC
> through USB lead. Taking power from the USB lead, it
> can be powered up, programmed and debugged without
> ANY of the usual external components or programmers
> needed to do this.
>
> This leaves ARM world and intel world trailing
> because they require special JTAG or other types of
> programmers to get their chips up up and running and that
> costs money.
>
> The software for it can be written in C
> and runs in netbeans IDE that uses
> a variant of gcc as the compiler, and it all runs on Linux!!
>
> Microchip has delivered some 1 billion chips to one customer
> alone! (Samsung.)
>
> But this new feature will allow any school kid to connect
> up a chip by hand soldering a few components
> and start programming it with industrial strength C backed
> up by the power of Linux, Netbeans IDE and gcc.
>
> PICs are superior when it comes to header files that describe
> CPU. Every single register and bit field is defined in a
> header file so when writing software and changing CPUs, its
> no effort at all. PortA.bit1 means port a and bit 1 regardless
> of CPU. Compare that with the crap from the ARM world.
> Going from Cortex M0 to Cortex M3 your UART will be called
> UART0 to USART0. ABSOLUTELY *FCKING* MAD!! This is a deliberate
> abject failure of MBAs (read non-techies running the show)
> that kills their own markets. It gets worse - the bit fields
> have no names. So you might call bit 11
> of port3 PIO3_11, while the guy in the next cubicle
> calls it PORT3_11. And now the code is impossible to
> knit together.
>
> As the CPUs get larger and become SoCs, then even
> registers don't have header files and names.
> Which absolutely and completely cripples portability of software,
> sales for chip vendors, and sales for ARM.
>
> Microchip still haven't a chip that is fast enough to
> run Linux or big enough to run Linux, but they could
> and should do it, and release header files for their SoCs,
> and also have this USB connector programmer feature
> in, and they will just sweep the entire market.
> ARM and their crap will become a nobody overnight.
>

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Re: Microchip makes a jump over all other CPU makers GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-06-21 18:09 -0600

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