Poll on what common microcontroller company that you use ?   ONLY ONE   ! - Page 1
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author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 01:33:34 am
content: Edit: Added "company" to the titleEdit: ApologySorry I did not see the max entries in the set up - See Pic with most optionsAfter I posted it, I have few options (no max entries) - See Pic with few optionsI cannot delete the whole thing. If a moderator wishes to delete the whole show, I do not mind and if they do, and I will redo this poll and set the max to 4 per vote(I feel dumb - sorry - I hope this dies a fast death). So if someone has some pull with a moderator and can delete the whole show, I will redo it with fewer selections but more votes. thanksBut so far I am surprised it is Atmel, I thought it would be Microchip and I am sad that NXP is so low.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Came across this list of microcontrollers:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_microcontrollersSo I wonder what MCUs members useNotice that there are 35 common MCUs, so it makes me wonder how many total there are?

author: Sal Ammoniac
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 02:02:30 am
content: This poll isn't very useful because it only lets you make one choice. I use at least a half dozen microcontrollers from several companies.

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 02:12:29 am
content: Quotemaybe Dave can have the Poll app or forum app upgraded?

author: danadak
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 02:58:14 am
content: I agree with prior posters, real useful data should allow one tovote for more than 1, you could consider a weighted usage for thesurveyee's choices as well.Regards, Dana.

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 03:39:36 am
content: Quote from: danadak on November 29, 2016, 02:58:14 amAs far as I can tell multiple votes at the same time is not a choice (would be a good idea). But I believe I set it up to allow more than one vote, so I assume that means you have to re-log in to vote again.

author: chicken
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 03:58:37 am
content: Also, these are companies not MCUs. TI and many others have multiple very different MCU families.

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 10:37:34 am
content: Indeed, this makes choice hard. I voted for STM, because in general if there was 1 MCU manufacturer left on earth I would be most happy with their product lines.However, if you narrow it down to only 8 to 16-bit CPU's for small projects, I would have picked Microchip/Atmel.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 11:42:26 am
content: Those are brands, not MCUs.Anyway, only 1 Atmel out of 36 votes looks unexpected to me.

author: Jeroen3
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 12:03:01 pm
content: I solely use STM32F lately. Because if you know one, you basically know all. And they have a large collection of sizes and shaped to fit all uses.Sometimes I maintain some Silabs 8051 cores, but it's 10 years back in time compared to ARM on the level of compiler and debugging.

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 12:04:47 pm
content: "Atmel" doesn't exist any more :-) (acquired by Microchip)Freescale (acquired by NXP), National Semiconductor (acquired by TI), NEC (merged into Renesas), Fujitsu (acquired by Spansion (?)), and Ubicom (sort-of acquired by Parallax), and Rockwell, are also gone.Lattice, Xilinx, and Altera do not offer "microcontrollers" per se.I'm not sure about some of the others. That wikipedia page could use some editing!

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 12:12:09 pm
content: Quote from: westfw on November 29, 2016, 12:04:47 pmI guess Atmel brand still exists, but it is owned by Microchip now.Also, Altera was bought by Intel.

author: jnz
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2016, 10:44:55 pm
content: Nordic Semi missing, and that's what I'm going to sell the most of.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2016, 12:03:01 am
content: Lattice don't do MCUs

author: mac.6
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2016, 02:53:59 pm
content: You can merge Freescale into NXP (and soon Qualcomm) as they are one entity now.

author: 22swg
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2016, 04:58:20 pm
content: Only ticked one , no grey cells left for more ...( could have voted for RCA1802 , but missing ! )

author: ^_^
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2016, 02:36:50 pm
content: It's really worth knowing some of them, because all the MCUs have different features.Till recently I've used Atmel, TI and STM.Atmels are pretty simple when you stay on the Atmega/attiny level (no ARM). And cheap.TI has so many it's hard to even tell, but MSP430/432 is definitely low power stuff. They have a lot of MCUs with their analog stuff, like special ADCs, RF etc.STM seems more integrated as their families are more staightforward.But after visiting electronica fair, which is extremely big, I see what you miss out not even knowing other guys.For example Cypress was really impressive, as they have FPGA-like thing along with MCU, so the chip can do a lot of things in hardware and you program it using blocks like in simulink.