Lpc2000

Rob,

I've about five months experience with the Ashling EVBA7 LPC2106 board.
It is part of a complete development system including gcc compiler,
source-level debugger, etc.  Full license, including board, is about
1500USD.  It's has its many quirks, but its big advantage is that it
does work right out of the box.  However, it is windows-centric.  Also,
I seem to recall that for the non-210x LPC chips, you need to buy a bare
board and solder the LPC chip on yourself.

Others on this list are developing on Linux, they might be able to point
you to other tools that might better fit your needs in that environment.

Curt

-----Original Message-----
From: dibosco [mailto:robert.wood@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:42 AM
To: lpc2000@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [lpc2000] Thinking of using LPC2294


Hi folks,

I have a project coming up for which I need some CAN ports and a
reasonable amount of power (in MIPS, not in mA!). The LPC2294 looks
perfect from what I can see, but I've never used ARM devices before and
would very much appreciate a little input. 

It looks to me like the Ashling LPC2000 dev board would  be good for
getting me familiar with ARM, and the Crossworks compiler runs under
Linux which is what I want. Does anyone have any experience with Ashling
in general? Are they good products? Would Crosswork's kit work with it? 

My experince includes 68k, Infineon (X)C166, Fujitsu 16 bit devices and
lots of eight bit stuff, so I have a good amount of experice including a
large amout of 16 and some 32 bit micros. A few of the micros I've
worked with have JTAG interfaces and I like the fact that these Phillips
devices have them too.  Are the ARM devices reasonably easy to get to
grips with for someone with the above experience? 

Finally, I would need to hang a couple of mega bytes of RAM on the
external address and data bus, how do ARM devices with internal RAM cope
with that? It might seem like a daft question, but, for example, the
Infineon XC16x devcies with internal flash aren't so great for hanging
stuff off the external bus because of memory segmentation. 

Many thanks,

Rob




 
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