Lpc2000

Hey Tom,

> This was the primary reason I purchased an Abatron BDI2000..

I'll get work to buy me an Abatron one of these days ... the
price of the basic unit from Ultimate Solutions (a US distributor)
is about $2800 (BDI2000 & bdiGBD PPC4x + P/s and cable kit).
Then to add bdiGDB for other PPC models, ARM, Coldfire etc is
$1000 per processor.

I was wondering if this is the route you went to get support
for multiple processors, or whether the BDI2000 allows you
to write your own interface, eg. the tradeoff being your own
time versus $1000 to support a new processor.

Is there anything particularly 'special' about using a BDI
versus a Wiggler, other than the fact that its convenient,
debugged, and supported hardware. eg. does Abitron pay ARM etc to
license an interface to say the trace module that somehow
makes the BDI interface better? I've used a TI JTAG-like
interface before and you could only purchase a unit from TI
or a licensee since the interface was proprietry.

Most of the processors I play with as a hobby, so getting work
to pay the extra money for adding processors is not so easy :)

Cheers
Dave