[time-nuts] Atmega?

[Bob Camp]

Hi

The number of bits and the performance of the ADC’s on the Arduino’s is pretty underwhelming compared to the stuff on other similarly priced MCU’s. If you are doing a design where the ADC matters, a PIC or just about anything from TI or Freescale will do a better job. 

Bob

On Feb 13, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Don Latham <djl at montana.com> wrote:

> 
> paul:
> Analog reference voltage from the uno is available. The adc and dac can
> use the same one.
> 
> Also, the "nano" arduinos with mini-usb connectors are pin
> (out)-compatible with much smaller footprint. They're load and go with
> the same ide. Used lots of them-nice. 16 bit serial dacs  are available
> and cheap. Adafruit is good to do biz with as is sparkfun.
> usew of the builtin comparator is in the 328 data manual.
> Don
> 
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