can anyone give me some insight as to how or if these compare to the Atmega line. I have watched some videos on the Cortex's but with so much technical talk about the core architecture i cannot understand it all, i could best understand it when in comparance to something i am more familiar with, hence the Arduino,
so are these Cortex's faster more powerfull processors , is it the same principle in the sense of .. Program it, get input, send output, serial comm. pwm ... etc... ?
because i was also looking at TI's microcontrollers the Mps..something ... and ,compared to the Arduino programming ide and language, that thing is not that pretty or straight forward to program, at least not very welcoming to novices.. in my opinion
My suggestion because I don't have an exact answer, is to go to forum related to that processor and try to find some code that you can do something with and see how complex it is. My second idea would be to download there software and see what it takes to use it.
So far, I have found the Arduino the most well laid out, shared information, community supported platform available. If you look at the lack of posts on other uC sites you will see what I mean.
I would like to be able to learn how to use a 32bit processor someday though.
I would like to be able to learn how to use a 32bit processor someday though.
Me too, but I hope it's an 'official' Arduino supported (hardware and software) addition.
Lefty
yes that is always true with all uC , Arduinos community is far Superior.
I did find a nice little development board about 10 dollars more expensive then a "stock" Uno , and it comes with a library to quickly get started interfacing
such as serial communication reading and writing i/o's
http://adafruit.com/products/281
I have only scratched the surface of the arduino world though i should probably try to learn this inside and out before going on to more complex not so user friendly processors.