Lpc2000

That's not even a realistic comparison, if I gave you <$100 would 
you/could you supply me with 100 wigglers? Are you even considering that 
the newer ones are USB based and much more complicated than a simple 
parallel port device? If for instance an engineers time is valued at 
$100 an hour, could he produce a one-off "professional finish" wriggler 
for less then $150? That's right, why bother!

Have you ever been involved in marketing? A humble can of beans may only 
contain a few cents worth of beans but I'm sure you pay a lot more than 
that for it quite happily. You could save yourself some money and grow 
them yourself, but isn't there always a cost involved in everything we do?

BTW, I have never needed to use ARM wrigglers myself.

*Peter*

Sean wrote:
> I have seen a lot of talk around about Wiggler-based JTAG debugger boards, 
> which can be built for < $1, and I see several commercial JTAG debugging 
> pods that are > $1000.  What is it that these things do that you can't do 
> with a simple wiggler interface?  I.e. for most intents and purposes what 
> can you not do with a wiggler interface?
>
> Even the original maker of wiggler charges > $150 for this board, which can 
> be built for like $1.  What's the deal there?