Re: dsPIC33F Lua support (Was: Advocating Lua on an embedded systems fair)

[Bogdan Marinescu <bogdan.marinescu@...>]

I don't know of any free compilers for their dsPICs, sadly (or for
PIC32 for that matter). Well, this basically happens because they
somehow manage to take GCC, modify it and then sell it for a lot of
money (this is true for both PIC32 and dsPIC). IMO this is the kind of
thing that kills open source, so I try to stay as far as possible from
their products and tools (I'm not questioning the legal aspects here,
just the ethical issues).
And you're right, 32k is quite right, but still good enough for many
small applications.

Best,
BOgdan

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM, John Hind <john.hind@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> Last time I looked they were tight on memory – checking again, RAM is still
> tight at 32K while memory at 256K is just about enough from our discussion.
> Microchip always put me off before by charging (a lot) for unlimited
> versions of their C compiler, but there may be open-source tool chains
> available now (or this is probably not an issue for you if you already use
> these).
>
>
>
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> Sent: 09 February 2009 14:23
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> Subject: dsPIC33F Lua support (Was: Advocating Lua on an embedded systems
> fair)
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am not that familiar with embedded programming, but at my work we are
> looking into running Lua on an embedded platform we use internally at the
> company. My question is: Can Lua run on a dsPIC33F micro? If not what is the
> cheapest and best micro we could use? Any suggestions and help would be
> great. Thanks.
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan