I am thinking of moving to an ARM of some description for our product in the next revision (we need some good fp performance).
I am wondering if anyone else has made this transition and what the effect on code size was.
We currently use about 110kb of AVR code. So I am assuming that 512kb of flash for an arm is probably tight? Can anyone comment?
Thanks Ralph
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IMHO, it should fit, especially if the ARM code is in Thumb mode.
I moved an application from Intel 80C188 to Atmel AT91R40008 (ARM7TDMI). The code size stayed substantially the same (40064 bytes vs 40016 bytes). The Intel code was compiled with the Borland C v. 4.5 and the ARM/Thumb code with GNU C (gcc-2.95).
The code may be even a little shorter, if the application calculates with
16- or 32-bit entities, as an ARM will handle the operation in one instruction but the AVR needs many.HTH
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