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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : HURRAH! THE MOST POWERFUL MICROMITE IS BACK IN STOCK

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circuit
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Posted: 09:11am 27 Apr 2023
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I have just taken delivery of three PIC32MZ2048EFH144-250I/PL chips.  Yes, the 144 pin MICROMITE XTreme is available once more!  When I ordered them a few days ago, the stock level was 360; 180 available last night and 178 this morning.  
Supplier: Digi-Key electronics.  

https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/products/detail/microchip-technology/PIC32MZ2048EFH144-250I-PL/6152260

Now, if only Peter had some time to update the firmware to align with the other Micromite versions then I would believe that I was in Heaven!  Perhaps after the release of the latest PicoMite firmware...

I do regard this chip as the ultimate - it has everything - even including TV camera capability.  It is an absolute bargain at only £14.50 per unit.  

Now to get one under the stereo microscope for some very careful soldering...

EDIT - Puzzling ; I definitely only posted this once but it has appeared twice.  I have seen this happen to others but this is the first time that it has happened to me!
Edited 2023-04-27 19:14 by circuit
 
pwillard
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At Mouser: $18.02
 
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478 in stock at digikey today - they must have restocked already.

I seem to remember that the MZ chip was not liked by Peter at the time, cos I think you HAD to use the Harmony IDE to write code for it, and the general consensus was that Harmony was anything but to use compared to previous IDE's.

I guess that is why only one MMBASIC port exists for that chip.

I'm only going on my memory for that one, but that is what I seem to recall.
So, great chip, but a royal pig to code for under Harmony, which is why it never became the CMM2 chip and why Peter never really wanted to work with it again.

I'm sure Peter himself will chime in here if I have that all wrong - I am going from my memory of threads LONG ago.  
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knivd

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Wrong memory
 
Amnesie
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Posted: 04:45pm 28 Apr 2023
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£14.50 is way too pricy for a bare chip. Even if it has more to offer than the pico.
 
circuit
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  pwillard said  At Mouser: $18.02

But not currently in stock.
 
circuit
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  Amnesie said  £14.50 is way too pricy for a bare chip. Even if it has more to offer than the pico.


Forgive me sir, but what world are you living in?  Have you looked at the specification of this 144 pin superchip?  It outclasses anything else in the MicroMite family by a pretty big margin with only the STM32H743ZI (ArmiteH7) beating it on speed but not on i/o availability.  Anyway, the STM32H743ZI boards used originally are now not manufactured and the bare chip is more expensive than the MZ chip. (I just wish that I had bought more than the one board that I have when they were being made.)

I agree that the PicoMite is a super-cheap chip but it is utterly outclassed by the MicroMite eXtreme which is simply in a different league.
 
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And the PIC32MZ MIPS core is far more powerfull (1.7 MIPS/MHz) than the Arm M0+ in the pico (0.9 MIPS/MHz).
Edited 2023-04-29 06:53 by Volhout
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Amnesie
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  circuit said  
  Amnesie said  £14.50 is way too pricy for a bare chip. Even if it has more to offer than the pico.


Forgive me sir, but what world are you living in?  Have you looked at the specification of this 144 pin superchip?


Forgive me. I live in a world, in which I can have my own opinions about how much I AM willing to spent for things I WANT to do with it.

  Quote  Have you looked at the specification of this 144 pin superchip?


When it's all about specifications, why not the "real deal" FPGA.

There is a reason such things as the Atmega328p, the ESP32 or the Pico draws by FAR more attention. Of course they cannot offer those specs. But that is not the point for the vast majority.

In my post I wrote:

  Quote  Even if it has more to offer than the pico.


Nothing more to say.
Edited 2023-04-29 06:56 by Amnesie
 
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