Engineering Tradeoffs — question 5 of 10
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Assume unit cost matters for a future production run but this specific project is a one-off prototype under a hard deadline.
You're picking between two microcontrollers for a four-week internship project. MCU A is cheaper per unit but has sparse documentation, no reference design, and you've never used its toolchain. MCU B costs three times as much but has extensive app notes and you've used it before. Cost isn't the real constraint here — your four weeks is. Walk through how you'd decide, and then tell me what would change your answer if you had six months instead of four weeks.