Return-Path: Received: from mtain-dl11.r1000.mx.aol.com (mtain-dl11.r1000.mx.aol.com [172.29.74.217]) by air-md08.mail.aol.com (v129.4) with ESMTP id MAILINMD083-8b924d39fc3335d; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:35:47 -0500 Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [195.171.43.25]) by mtain-dl11.r1000.mx.aol.com (Internet Inbound) with ESMTP id 15D6E380000D6; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:35:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1PgOcs-0007SD-RY for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:34:34 +0000 Received: from [195.171.43.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1PgOcs-0007S4-9Z for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:34:34 +0000 Received: from mout5.freenet.de ([195.4.92.95]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PgOcr-0000gg-6O for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:34:34 +0000 Received: from [195.4.92.17] (helo=7.mx.freenet.de) by mout5.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID dl4yhf@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.72 #3) id 1PgOcp-00068G-UP for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:34:31 +0100 Received: from blfd-5d822a15.pool.mediaways.net ([93.130.42.21]:2887 helo=[192.168.0.101]) by 7.mx.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID dl4yhf@freenet.de) (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (port 465) (Exim 4.72 #3) id 1PgOcp-0001Hm-JY for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:34:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4D39FBE5.8050102@freenet.de> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:34:29 +0100 From: wolf_dl4yhf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <4D36FF68.2060009@iup.uni-heidelberg.de> <201101201912.18820.smtp01@email.it> In-Reply-To: <201101201912.18820.smtp01@email.it> X-Spam-Score: 1.4 (+) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,RATWARE_GECKO_BUILD=1.426 Subject: Re: LF: Pic or Atmel? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d4ad94d39fc2b6c8c X-AOL-IP: 195.171.43.25 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Hi Claudio, you wrote: > Last: with PIC 16Fxxx is easy to make a 40 MHz frequency meter, with AT MEGA > xxx it's impossible without external HW, so... I use both but I prefer > ATMEL ;-) > indeed, the nice asynchronous counter (which processes signals way above the pic's clock frequency) doesn't exist in the Atmel chip ... some builders of this PIC based frequency counter successfully 'tortured' it to count up to 70 MHz ;o) http://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/freq_counter/freq_counter.html 73, Wolf .