Graham,
> But WinAVR supports the JTAG-ICE, which is great.
>
> > ... to make it really useful, shove an
> > FTDI USB<->RS232 chip on the end ...
>
> Shhhhhhhhhh! (That's the plan.)
The downside is that you for convenience you pay in performace: code
download plummets from 5K/second to about 1K/second. I don't use the
packaged FTDI USB to RS232 converters we have on anything other than the
Mac when using a serial ICE.
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Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd http://www.rowley.co.uk
CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, and (soon) Atmel AVR processors