On 26/02/17 17:01, Dave Cole wrote: > I tried to buy it from the Atmel store as well and I was told the same > thing and I am in the US. > So they aren't picking on Canadians.... yet. ;-)
Am I missing something? Like the Microchip IDE, the Atmel one is available as a free download. You do not need to buy the DVD unless you don't have a reasonable broadband connection. http://www.atmel.com/tools/atmelstudio.aspx#download MPLAB will probably have the necessary profiles added at some point but that will bring things under the Microship licencing scheme. I was running free versions of MPLAB but the 'new improved' one MPLAB X is yet another change to style ... http://www.microchip.com/mplab/ I don't actually need the stand alone IDE's as I've been running Eclipse for code development across many languages and platforms ( very rarely Java though ) and since ARM directly support the GNU ARM toolchain this has become a good base to expand on. http://www.atmel.com/tools/atmel-arm-toolchain.aspx provides the official Atmel Device Family Packs although most development boards have their own tailored set of files for the ARM toolchain ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users