On 4/17/2012 5:33 AM, John Prentice wrote: > Greetings > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave"<e...@dc9.tzo.com> > > > >> On 4/16/2012 5:00 PM, Stephen Dubovsky wrote: >> >>>> As far as I can tell, ARMs are in a different class. (Price, complexity, >>>> performance, etc.) >>>> >>> There are dozens of companies making >>> thousands of ARM processor variations. One will have the >>> peripherial/memory flavor at the price point you need. The code is >>> mostly >>> compatible from the top to bottom of the cortex line (and *WAY* more than >>> porting from TI to AVR to PIC, etc) >>> >>> Stephen >>> >>> >> >> OK... I'll bite. What kind of software tool chain and hardware is good >> to get started on a NXP LPC1111 or similar Arm? >> >> >> > I am not an expert - in fact only just round the next corner from you. > > I followed this path: > (a) Arduino UNO/Mega -> limitations of the 8 bit data. > (b) Netduino (Atmel AT91SAM7X512) C# in Microsoft VisualStudio - hopeless > speed on interpreted C# and difficulty of adding native code without > expensive Kiel tools. > (c) Netduino with IAR Embedded workbench - chip programming by USB but no > debugging > (d) Atmel AT91SAM7x-EK - same processor albeit smaller memory - JTAG > connector and a minimal debugging serial port. In-circuit programming and > debugging by SEGGER J-Link (I got the SAM-ICE customised version but that > might have been limiting for the future) over the JTAG plus printf to the > serial port. > > IAR is free for limited code size and non-commercial use. So far I have > found experimentation very pleasant. > > Be interested to read others comments. > > John Prentice > > >
John, Thanks for the info.. your comments are very interesting. The Netduino looks interesting but sounds like a non-starter. It is just a little overwhelming what can be done with these ARM MCUs. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
