[fpc-devel] Topic for the list - Embedded port for PIC Micros

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Nick Brown said:
> A very interesting port for an "OS-less" platform would be a port to the PIC
> family of microcontrollers. There may be some issues because memory is in
> short  supply but notwithstanding, this would be pretty cool.

As Michael said, what PIC exactly ? The three ranges (8/16/32) are totally
different. I'm using the 8-bitters and the 16-bitters.

- IIRC the 8-bit PICs have a segmented memory model (pages of 256 bytes
selected using a selector register)

- 2-8kb of memory (maximum on the 16-bit iirc, with maybe a 16kb coming
  soon) is too little to even use strings and other normal routines.

- You need SFR support, but worse, to convert the device specific header
  file for each of the hundreds of different chips, and maintain them.