Lpc2000

At 09:30 AM 2/22/2006 -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> > 1/  The coding of the flash programming algorithm in the boot loader
> > unreliable because: a) it depends on wait loops rather than polling the
> > flash controller status register; and b) it requires clock frequency to be
> > passed as a run-time argument.
>
>I, for one, had origonally assumed the presence of a crystal-freq in
>the isp app was just for setting baud-rate dividers appropriately,
>though in hindsight, it's obvious that that's needed in the device,
>not the pc.  This news makes one very cautious, and I don't hesitate
>to say that a bootloader requiring a human to type in the crystal freq
>to program memory is worthy of being disparaged, in my opinion.  Which

How else do you propose they determine the frequency in order to set 
internal timing dependent parameters?

Robert

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