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How to Pick a Microcontroller For Beginner

http://www.sureshjoshi.com/embedded/how-to-pick-a-microcontroller/

Many months ago when I was on vacation, I had a chat with the fantastic people behind SnapEDA about my heavily opinionated thoughts around how to pick a microcontroller (aside: if you’re a hardware designer and you’ve never used SnapEDA – sign up for free and watch your life instantaneously become easier). They briefly wrote about those thoughts in their Top 10 Microcontrollers post.

Here we are about 6 months later, and I thought it would be good to re-visit some of those opinions. I’ve just selected a few new microcontrollers for some projects, so I’ve gone through these decisions again recently.
There are a multitude of factors to keep in mind when picking an MCU, but the problem is that there are usually TOO many factors, and it’s easy to get stuck into an “analysis paralysis” situation.
Below are a subset of design considerations when choosing an MCU, but you’ll notice that I dismiss some of them entirely.

http://www.sureshjoshi.com/embedded/how-to-pick-a-microcontroller/

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