Motorola or Microchip?

[Mike Fahrion]

Microchip PICs virtually dominate the hobbiest market due to great 
low qty availability and a few low cost tools.  The "real" 
development tools (in circuit emulator) still cost real money - but 
in most cases the hobbiest can do without it.  There is a large 
amount of info on the 'net on PICs - you can build your own 
programmer from that info for almost nothing.

PICs also (usually) offer more performance per $ if outright speed is 
important.

Motorola has been working hard to get back a share of the low end uP 
market after losing it with nearly infinite delivery times a few 
years back right when microchip was on the upswing.  For hobbiest 
purposes (and in my case production purposes) I have been very happy 
with microchip so far - and am keeping my fingers crossed for the 
future.

Good Luck
-mike
mfahrion at bb-elec.com
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Mike Fahrion                mfahrion at bb-elec.com      http://www.bb-elec.com/
B&B Electronics Mfg Co      ph.(815) 433-5100 ext.215    fax (815) 434-7094 
707 Dayton Road                 PO Box 1040                  Ottawa IL 61350
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