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Looking to start ARM Development!

Zachery Littell
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 27th January 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    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.


    -Zack-
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 27th January 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    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.


    -Zack-
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