Gold, Fun, or Silver

[checkitout]

I am looking to do some more playing for learning and would like to compare programming a Gold, Fun and Silver cards.

Noticed the price of the cards increase from Gold to Fun to Silver and was wondering that apart from inreased memory capacity what advantages does a Fun or Silver card have over a Goldie?

[gw1]

Gold and Silver use PIC architecture, Fun uses AVR. There's comparison and .

The benefit of extra RAM and EEPROM onboard the silver's , compared to the gold's , can't be overstated. Gold really only has enough for very simple systems and the lack of RAM in particular is very limiting. Once you run out of RAM you have to use EEPROM which is phenomenally slower, even more so once you need to use the external EEPROM, and reduces card life too.

By all means have a play with Gold but you'll soon outgrow it.

If you prefer to code in C rather than assembler then AVR is often a better choice because it has extra pointers and addressing modes specifically for . The free GNU compiler for AVR produces tight code and is cross-platform of course too.

[Al Bundy]

Longevity

[beer4life]

Longevity

You would know all about that......

[checkitout]

I have needed to use an Old Elvis Programmer with the Gold card. As the Silver card uses PIC architecture I assume this same programming "test bed" should be OK for it as well??

Actually also noticed a "Fun Card" section in the Multiprog software for the Elvis Programmer as well so that sounds good as well ??

One more question.. How "idiot" proof are these cards.??

I will go out and buy some to play with .... hoping I do not kill them (at least not quickly)

[Al Bundy]

.....One more question.. How "idiot" proof are these cards.??

Doesn't really matter, you will always find a new improved class of "idiot".....