Post by thread:[PIC]: Asian copies of PICs

Hello all, today I stumbled on an ad in the "Asiansources - electronic components" journal. A company called G-Alantic Enterprise offers Microcontrollers, and they give PIC 16C54, 55, 56, 57 and 16C711 as compatible products, stating that these controllers are 100% compatible with PICs. Their Website is at http://www.g-alantic.com.tw. Anyone ever tested these? Do they work as good and reliable as PICs? Are they priced competitively? Greetings Jochen Feldhaar DH6FAZ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

Hmmm... What kinds of prices/qtys are they quoting you? ----- Original Message ----- From: J.Feldhaar <spam_OUTj.feldhaarTakeThisOuTTELEJET.DE> To: <.....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:06 AM Subject: [PIC]: Asian copies of PICs - are they OK? {Quote hidden}> Hello all, > > today I stumbled on an ad in the "Asiansources - electronic components" > journal. A company called G-Alantic Enterprise offers Microcontrollers, > and they give PIC 16C54, 55, 56, 57 and 16C711 as compatible products, > stating that these controllers are 100% compatible with PICs. Their > Website is at http://www.g-alantic.com.tw. > Anyone ever tested these? > Do they work as good and reliable as PICs? > Are they priced competitively? > > Greetings > Jochen Feldhaar > DH6FAZ > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

> Hello all, > > today I stumbled on an ad in the "Asiansources - electronic > components" journal. A company called G-Alantic Enterprise offers > Microcontrollers, and they give PIC 16C54, 55, 56, 57 and 16C711 as > compatible products, stating that these controllers are 100% > compatible with PICs. Their Website is at http://www.g-alantic.com.tw. Anyone > ever tested these? Do they work as good and reliable as PICs? Are they > priced competitively? I've used them. A few years ago now. They're not really 100% compatible (depending on your definition). They are pin compatible and have extra instructions over the equivalent PIC part. Their programmer will read a PIC hex file and translate directly to their binary format so you can develop for a PIC and directly program their parts. Just not with a Microchip programmer. If you go to the native assembler, you can squeeze a bit more in. Power consumption is good and the one part does down to 2.5V without needing an LP part which was why I looked at them at the time. Pricing was very good. The main disadvantages are those common to many parts out of Asia like language/culture issues, MOQ's, leadtimes and the assumption that you'll be going to mask next week. Steve. ====================================================== Steve Baldwin Electronic Product Design TLA Microsystems Ltd Microcontroller Specialists PO Box 15-680, New Lynn http://www.tla.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand ph +64 9 820-2221 email: .....stevebKILLspam.....tla.co.nz fax +64 9 820-1929 ====================================================== -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList EraseMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu