Lpc2000

Hi fordp2002,

Board space is very cheap for the manufacturer compared to the component 
cost (and placing of components). It would be nice route all ports to 
DIL 0.1" pitch headers in GPIO pin sequential order, and ALSO route the 
special function pins to SIL 0.1" pitch headers grouped by function 
(like the Olimex boards). It would not be necessary to populate both 
sets of headers, but this gives the user great flexibility with little 
extra expense (I still don't see this on many boards). Also, if it's not 
economical to include FPGA etc... etc... on the same board, include 
unpopulated daughterboard(s) which snap off the end of the main board 
and stack on the DIL headers to offer this functionality. The user just 
needs to populate the snap-off, the cost of the board space for the 
manufacturer is very little. This is used by Microchip on some PIC eval 
boards and solves the problem of the user buying a massive eval system 
because they required one feature.

Kind regards,

Nic

fordp2002 wrote:

>Check out www.olimex.com, I like those boards.
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>Also see http://www.rowley.co.uk/crossfire/crossfire_lm3s102.htm
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>That is a great board to me.
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>But use an FTDI chip for JTAG debugging and OpenOCD for debugging instead.
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>A board like above, WinARM, OpenOCD, Eclipse & CDT, a header file,
>linker scipts and demos program and you will have a truly great demo
>baord package.
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>I am designing something very simalar for the LPC2103.
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>Number 1 is to keep it simple and make it easy to tag on extra target
>hardware.
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>I will let you know where to send my free board later ;)
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>Come to think of it, I am known to Future already so you should know
>where to send it.
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>If you need more detailed help let me know.
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>All the best.
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>--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Frantz Robinson"
><frantz.robinson@...> wrote:
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>>Everyone, 
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>>I'll try to keep this brief but perhaps a little intro is in order. 
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>>I am one of the many 'lurkers' on the list quietly learning from all
>>your valuable contributions here, but alas I have little time for active
>>experimentation so I've been mostly quiet. Having done ARM designs in
>>the past, I am of course a huge fan of this architecture and especially
>>Philips's incarnation of it.  
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>>I am an 'X' design engineer, but I find myself now with the
>>responsibility to help market these parts for a large global distributor
>>(Future) on behalf of Philips. One of the things we try to do here to
>>help our customers and train our FAE's in supporting them, is come up
>>with unique demo boards for key technologies like the LPC2K, and we have
>>been tossing around board concepts for some time, but now that this is
>>closer to actual execution I'd like to get your valuable insights to
>>help us come up with something truly unique and useful.  There are a lot
>>of very good boards available from many sources, so for this to be
>>worthwhile, it needs to be sufficiently different from those - no sense
>>in re-inventing the wheel. 
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>>So my question to you is:
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>>To be most useful to you, how should the demo/eval board be designed;
>>what interfaces, peripheral components, external memory if any, form
>>factor, etc, etc should it support? 
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>>What Philips ARM part would you most like to see supported? ( I'm
>>proposing LPC2888- do you agree? )
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>>How would you use this board ? (what invention / design would it allow
>>you to create?)
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>>To make this worthwhile, I will take all your submissions and draw 5
>>winners who will receive the resulting board for free, courtesy of
>>Future Electronics and Philips. 
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>>Thank you 
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>>Best Regards
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>>Frantz Robinson,
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>>Technical Marketing Manager
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>>Philips Technical Champion
>>FUTURE ELECTRONICS INC 
>>237 Hymus blvd., Pointe-Claire, Quebec, H9R 5C7 
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