Lpc2000

At 09:30 AM 10/19/04 +1000, you wrote:
>EXTRA SERIAL CHANNEL SELECTION GUIDE
>------------------------------------------
>EXTERNAL UART + CODE + INTERFACE    = $$$
>EXTERNAL SPI UART + CODE            = $$$
>EXTERNAL MICRO + CODE               = $
>BIT-BANGED I/O + CODE               = free

That does make the assumption that pins and code are free and that the CPU 
isn't already occupied with other time critical functions. ;).

I don't know about the original poster but I place some value on my 
time.  For a strictly debug it may well be cheaper to simple hang some HW 
off a header to SPI or I2C even if the chips are more expensive than a 16550.

Robert

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