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Atmel and Microchip are getting awfully friendly!

rwgast_logicdesignrwgast_logicdesign Posts: 1,464
edited 2013-04-02 01:19 in General Discussion
I just saw this today, it is rather interesting. For those of you who do not watch EEVBlog but use AVRs or PICs, you may want to watch this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HWlpqSrabKs#!

I don't really know if this is a good thing, or a bad thing. But I am pretty excited that I will be able to spend $50 on a PicKit 4 or AVR Dragon and have a nice programmer capable of interfacing with both chips. Kind of glad I have held off on buying a decent programmer for either one. I know that MicroChip tried to buy AVR a while back, I wonder what the long term plan is for this, and what kind of impact it will have.

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  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2013-04-01 13:02
    You do know what day this is don't you?

    C.W.
  • rwgast_logicdesignrwgast_logicdesign Posts: 1,464
    edited 2013-04-01 13:05
    Just figured that out and came back to delete my post... LOL man I feel like an idiot. In my defense I did not realize it was April 1st!
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2013-04-01 13:07
    Well it would have been cool had it been true.

    C.W.
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    edited 2013-04-01 18:17
    ctwardell wrote: »
    You do know what day this is don't you?
    C.W.

    hehe - just imagine the market-droids in either company, seeing this and running madly to engineering, to try to stop it !!
  • frank freedmanfrank freedman Posts: 1,983
    edited 2013-04-01 19:12
    That's as good as sending the Grainger rep on a search for an Iludium PU-32 security fastener...........:)

    Even told him to talk to Martin as his point of contact at M. Blanc Engineering Inc. when he came back the first time for more info........

    He's still looking........

    Persistent I guess......
    ctwardell wrote: »
    You do know what day this is don't you?

    C.W.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2013-04-01 19:16
    frank freedman wrote: »
    That's as good as sending the Grainger rep on a search for an Iludium PU-32 security fastener...........:)

    My first wild goose chase was to find a "cabinet stretcher." Thankfully the first person I talked to suggested that I should take the day off and report the next day that I searched high and low to no avail.
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2013-04-01 19:20
    rwgast_logicdesign wrote: »
    I just saw this today, it is rather interesting. For those of you who do not watch EEVBlog but use AVRs or PICs, you may want to watch this,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HWlpqSrabKs#!

    I don't really know if this is a good thing, or a bad thing. But I am pretty excited that I will be able to spend $50 on a PicKit 4 or AVR Dragon and have a nice programmer capable of interfacing with both chips. Kind of glad I have held off on buying a decent programmer for either one. I know that MicroChip tried to buy AVR a while back, I wonder what the long term plan is for this, and what kind of impact it will have.

    Besides the obvious answer I noted with amusement all the "props" (not Props) in the youtube video. I counted 4 "surplus" signal generators stacked up but only one with a probe, 2 Tek scopes but only a single channel of one with a probe etc etc.

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-04-01 19:43
    Dave's rants are pretty funny sometimes. Adult language warning! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iHFm-kVTXW8#t=772s Jump to 12:52
  • newsmartnewsmart Posts: 1
    edited 2013-04-02 01:19
    yes ,it is intersting .
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