Microchip is to introduce five families of 8bit microcontrollers, sharing both its PIC and ex-Atmel AVR resources amongst new PICs and AVRs. Users who favour PIC or AVR should not be concerned, according to Microchip marketing director Oyvind Strom: “We are maintaining the bus structures of PIC and AVR, the way you interact with the peripherals …
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