Lpc2000

Eric, 

> > I have a question about Rowley's CrossConnect: does it only 
> work with 
> > CrossWorks, or can it be used with my own GNU toolchain and 
> GDB? I am 
> > also wondering the same about the Segger J-Link.
> 
> The J-Link comes with a Windows DLL that provides a proprietary
> (closed) implementation of the RDI debug commands. They also 
> make a J-link server that surfaces a TCP/IP interface to the 
> RDI commands and that API is open and supported  by gdb. Gdb 
> is a commandline debugger that has GUI wrappers in the form 
> of Insight and Eclipse.
> 
> The J-link currently cannot be used on any host OS other than Windows.
> 
> I don't know much about CrossConnect/CrossWorks but I 
> understand it works on both Windows and linux. I think this 
> is the only USB JTAG device that works on linux. But I don't 
> think this provides an open API?

We are currently in two (or maybe three) minds as to whether to open up
the CrossConnect API.  There's good reasons to keep it closed and good
reasons to open it up.  I'm prepared to hear arguments to open up the
CrossConnect.

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Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd  http://www.rowley.co.uk
CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, AVR and now MAXQ processors