Archive for 26. October 2008

PIC32, Harvard or Von Neumann

In Chapter 6 of the PIC32 book I briefly mention that the PIC32 differs from all previous PIC microcontrollers since it offers a Von Neumann programming model as opposed to the Harvard model adopted by all previous Microchip architectures.   Then, in a note I remind all the readers that the core of the PIC32 (MIPS M4K) is Harvard based. More than one reader has written back to me to report the apparent contradiction, while in fact there is none. Let’s see if I can make things clearer …

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