Microchip Curiosity Board

[shantanu@india]

In the realm of pure 32-bit ARM microcontrollers, STM32 are definitely are far ahead than their competitors. I'm not counting Expressif in that bracket.
But ST documentation is daunting whereas Microchip datasheets are far easier to understand.
I have a project involving STM coming up and would need to climb up the steep learning curve very soon.

[top204]

Many thanks basiclover. It will stay in paypal until our life is back in order and I will see what I can get in the way of the new PIC32 devices.

And many thanks SCV, but it will need to wait until we have moved to our new address. Home, hopefully, but one can never tell until one has been living their for a few months. It's never the actual house or area, it is the idiots, or the lack of idiots around it in the area that make it a home or just a place to live in for a while, as I found out 5 years ago when I made the biggest mistake in my life and saw my home town through rose tinted glasses, and my "so called" family, and moved up here. :-(

[John Lawton]

In the realm of pure 32-bit ARM microcontrollers, STM32 are definitely are far ahead than their competitors. I'm not counting Expressif in that bracket.
But ST documentation is daunting whereas Microchip datasheets are far easier to understand.
I have a project involving STM coming up and would need to climb up the steep learning curve very soon.

I'm wondering whether the STM 'ARM' parts are likely to work with a new Positron for ARM compiler that is based on Microchip 'ARM' parts? 

Just wondering... Maybe I'll need to look at the STM datasheets and compare.

I suppose it also depends on how Les designs a 32 bit compiler, current versions of which rely on the Microchip assembler, but I'm not sure if that applies to the 32 bit devices or how (or if) it would work with STM parts.

[shantanu@india]

That would be a dream come true John.
The core ARM architecture would be similar, peripherals would vary. Need to study deeply.
ST has developed a very powerful HAL (hardware abstraction layer) programming tool for their microcontrollers.Its extremely popular also because of its JTAG support.