I assume you guys already have
http://www.microchip.com/pic32mzda
in the works, so when should we expect it ?
Bearing in mind the quite high price and rather low performance, do you think anyone wants significant quantities?
John
Every month someone makes new microcontroller, we have no resources to cover them all :)
If something is really interesting to us we do it, like the new ESP32, but yet another microcontroller with few KB more RAM and few MB more Flash - who cares? what unique this PIC has which others don't?
Just the quite high price?
For such low RAM, low flash, low performance...
John
I hope that some day microchip really makes controllers with multiple cores. Back in 2016 Embedded World I asked them, they told they are working on it, but until now nothing :(
Microchip are so far behind the cheap, fast, etc ARM multi-core CPUs so why would they? Why would anyone buy them anyway?
They need to sort out pricing, too.
John
That is true :(
Anyway, if they would have one, then I guess Mplab X would become twice as slow. More cores more slower the tool :)
The only thing is that I only own an ICD3 (+PICkit3) and I already know the devlopment environment (mplab, mplabx, compiler). Not that I would not be able to learn or accomodate on a different one. In fact big companies like to change the tooling on every project (some hobby from management or so). Maybe I need to buy an other kind of debugger and start to look for controllers with multicore. Not sure if there is a cheap debugger and free compiler available. Everything that I know const more than 1000+ Euros.
Try a JTAG device, OpenOCD, gdb, gcc etc.
John