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Zachery Littell
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Zachery Littell
over 7 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 27th January 2012 at
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Alright I am just a little confused because I am used to the PIC where in order to downgrade to a lower PIC with the compiler I just use a different #include header. Obviously I still have to redefine pin names and make sure it has all the same hardware necessary to run my code, but that is about the only overhead.
I think I am just going to stick with the Cortex M series like I originally planned and you suggested. Then maybe next year get another dev board with more of an embedded RTOS type system in mind. I just was hoping to kill 2 birds with one stone. I just don't think I can meet the requirement of low cost chips. The TI Stellaris series has chips from about $3-5 up to $10 and most of the things I use them for are microcontroller based products. Having the embedded operating system will be overkill 90% of the time. It just looks like so much fun though, haha! But I really need to be able to buy price comparable chips when it comes time for my ideas to hit the production line. I can't afford to put $40 microprocessors in hardware that can run on $5 controllers.
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Note: This was originally posted on 27th January 2012 at
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For parts which are a step up from a PIC, the Cortex-M3 sounds like the right option, although typically RAM and Flash is limited so running some flavour of Linux directly is likely to be difficult. For getting started take a look at:
http://mbed.org/
This is a rapid prototyping board based on the Cortex-M family - it's pin compatible with breadboard, and comes with a web-based compiler, and programs you compile just download over USB. It's great for hacking about to get a feel for what the platforms are capable of.
In terms of architecture and code portability between a Cortex-A and a Cortex-M you have a little work to do. The Cortex-M family is a little different to other ARM cores in terms of how the interrupts are managed, and in the Cortex-A family you have the added complications of cache and MMU handling, which you won't have in the Cortex-M. So system code is not 100% portable between the two.
For the generic "application code", as you say C is C, and the compiler can do the hard work
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