Lpc2000

Hi,

> I have a cheap Wriggler clone and evaluation board from Web7days. I
> (now) know that by paying a little bit more I could have got 
> much better, and I will be getting some better tools.
> 
> But, today I got back to ny LPC project and as the Web7days 
> kit is all I have at the moment I resumed work with that. I 
> get a lot of problems with the jtag I/F, and reasoned that it 
> ain't that complicated....let's fix it. Armed with Leon 
> Hellers scheme in the file section I found the problem in 2s 
> flat.....pins 1 and 2 of the jtag connector on the evaluation 
> board were connected together but to nothing else....the '244 
> on the wriggler had Vcc at 2V courtesy of the protection diodes.
> 
> And this is the MKII version of the board!
> 
> You get what you pay for.....I saved perhaps $30 by going to 
> Web7days, the worse "saving" I have ever made in my life!

Best advice is that if you want a cheap LPC board, the Olimex kit is
pretty hard to beat.  Every board we've received here works without
problem.

With Olimex you don't pay over the odds, you get a clean piece of
hardware, and it *does* work.  Not only that, but Tsvetan is a great guy
if you're having minor problems with your boards.  Each time I've asked
about a suspected hardware fault, it's always been my problem, and not
the boards.

--
Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd http://www.rowley.co.uk
CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, and (soon) Atmel AVR processors