Re: $100 coupon @ seminar
2004-06-18 by Huze
Just a heads up on the $100 coupon option...
I attended the Atmel seminar in Toronto yesterday. I had chosen the $100
coupon when I registered, with the intent of buying an STK-500.
Unfortunately I was told the $100 coupon is only good on items worth US$100
or more. In fact, it's only valid on "qualifying" development tools....
the JTAGICE mk-II, ICE40 and ICE50 as well as some ARM and C51 tools.
A bit disappointing so I asked to get an JTAGICE instead of the coupon.
Hugh
I attended the Atmel seminar in Toronto yesterday. I had chosen the $100
coupon when I registered, with the intent of buying an STK-500.
Unfortunately I was told the $100 coupon is only good on items worth US$100
or more. In fact, it's only valid on "qualifying" development tools....
the JTAGICE mk-II, ICE40 and ICE50 as well as some ARM and C51 tools.
A bit disappointing so I asked to get an JTAGICE instead of the coupon.
Hugh
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Atmel is giving seminars across the country (see their web site) and as a promotion, giving you a JTAGICE OR a $100 coupon (enough for an STK500?). Which would you choose? Perhaps I should have asked for the coupon, because it sounds, just like Microchip, they are abandoning their first-model for the MkII. Must not be enough money in supporting cheap entry-level tools. But the cheap tools get small businesses hooked on their products. If Atmel wasn't giving a seminar and the JTAG-ICE, I would grudglingly cough up the $100 bucks for an Olimex ICD2, because the AVR language and architecture looks like an ordeal to learn. (Topic for another thread).What I'd like to see fixed, is STUDIO! Some days, I have no problems at all. Other days, it's unusable. Feels like something un-initialized somewhere..Care to describe the problems in more detail? I loaded it just to compare it with MPLab and spent 10 minutes so far glancing at it, and it looks like a higher-quality IDE from the graphics in the help-files anyways. Scott