Lpc2000

> I want to buy software/hardware with room for me to grow into, but 
I'm limited to about 
> $1500 right now.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Jeff
>

I don't know anything about the merits of various boards but I am 
happy with my Olimex LPC2106 board from Sparkfun.  I also have the 
LPC2106 header board and I'm looking at the LPC2148 development 
board.

I really think you should spend time with James Lynch's tutorial 
before you commit to spending a ton of money on development tools.  
I'm certainly not a 'professional' developer but I find the Eclipse 
IDE and the GNU toolchain more than adequate.  Now, others will feel 
the IDE is unnecessary and I'm ok with that.  If they want to work 
from the command line then the toolchain works that way as well.  I 
just like the way it keeps my projects organized.  It is easy to 
copy and paste modules between projects.  Furthermore, the setup is 
exactly the same on my Linux machine and my XP machine.  My next 
project is to put dual monitors on my Linux machine.  That will 
happen next week.

I would put the money into a JTAG debugger only and I'm not sure I 
would do that.  JTAG is great but ISP will get the code transferred 
with no complications or cost.  Debugging can certainly be done 
without JTAG.  I use printf quite a bit.  But, if you have the money 
to spend, this is the place to put it.  Get something that works.

The tutorial is here: http://www.olimex.com/dev/pdf/ARM%20Cross%
20Development%20with%20Eclipse%20version%203.pdf

There are other points of view...

Richard