When I started toying with microcontrollers several years ago, I kind of ignored Microchip’s PIC family completely. I think it was 8-bit stuff only those days. Although having some history with 8-bit Z80 in my early years, my real job with 32/64-bit unix servers made me look for something “bigger”, which lead me to the LPC2000 series from Philips (NXP today).
But when NPX released some Arm Cortex-M0 chips in hobbyist-friendly DIP packages they made me look around what else might be available in similar packages. I knew about PIC32MX family from Microchip before, but wasn’t really interested in it, because I thought that Arm Cortex-M stuff would dominate the world (maybe it will, maybe not). But breadboarding is really nice during prototyping and PIC32MX chips in DIP packages have much more flash and ram than those offered by NXP. Continue reading “Pic32 port for Pico]OS”