Re: [avr-chat] This makes me sad

[David Kelly]

On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:43 PM, <address@hidden> <address@hidden 
> wrote:

> Atmel is obviously a modern company promoting bloat :~)

No, it that was the case there would be only one big AVR for all  
applications.

What Atmel has done is for the most part placing one register in one  
place on all AVRs. Then if not all AVRs have the function of that  
register then its left unoccupied. The OP complaint was that precious  
space went to waste in the smaller devices, that many registers are  
placed higher in memory requiring multiple instructions to access.

The way Atmel has done things there are several AVRs one could use for  
an application without recompiling one's code.

No doubt if Atmel had known how broad their product line would be  
today when the original AVR was created they would assign register  
addresses differently. Then again I have no doubt many things would  
change. Then again just when do you stop designing and redesigning the  
darn thing and finally ship product?

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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