Lpc2000

One of the things that really make these micros valueable is this 
group. All micros have various issues and need for workarounds etc, 
but often you don't knoiw what the problems are or what the 
workarounds are. This goup works great because there are a bunch of 
people that are sharing their problems and solutions which really 
helps to get stuff moving.

There are many toolchains available for ARM. One very cool thing 
about using the ARM's EmbeddedICE JTAG interface is that it is common 
across all ARM7 cores which means that you can feel very confident 
that a toolchain that has proven itself on a different ARM7 project 
will work on LPC21xx. I personally use gcc/gdb + Abatron bdi2000, but 
I can't see why you should not have great success with gcc/gdb + 
wiggler. When you debug a program in flash you have more limited 
debugging (less breakpoints).

I have not tried going into production with an LPCxxx so aI can't 
comment on that.

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "c_hall2001" <c_hall2001@y...> wrote:
> I'm just getting started with the ARM processor (just reading--no 
> hardware yet) and found the LPC chips.  At first they seemed to be 
> great but after looking into the data I'm having second thoughts.  
> Are these chips ready or still in a beta stage?  There seems to be 
> problems with JTAG loading the flash memory.  Has this been 
> resolved?  Can GCC and the Wiggler JTAG interface be used to debug 
> applications in flash with the LPC's?  Are there any 'show stopper' 
> issues with using these chips in a commercial application?  I'm 
> still reading through my ARM manual (ARM System-on-Chip 
Architecture 
> (2nd Edition)) so I'm still climbing the learning curve.
> 
> TIA