Lpc2000

Robert,

> That sounds quite bizarre.

Yep, bizarre and very annoying.

> Have you loaded the resulting hex into an editor
> and verified that it is in fact a hex file?  IE no strange characters
> padded in somewhere.

I've loaded it into the LPC ISP Hex viewer thing, and it all looks fine to
me.. Though the code is very different.

> The only other thing I can think of would be if the hex generated had some
> references to non-existant memory areas.  Hmm, Martin's LPC21ISP has a
> debug option to dump out a binary image of the hex, you might give that a
> try and see if there is something odd about the result.

Do you have a link for this?

> Mind you, the USB->serial device shouldn't care what stream is sent to
> it.  Maybe it has an escape sequence it recognizes?

Possibly, though it would be a first, I've used this USB->Serial converter
for my AVR projects for months without a single problem.

Paul