Lpc2000

Dear sir,
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Yvon

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "rudyvanraemdonck" <rudy@m...> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Here is my situation:
> 
> I have currently developed (and am selling) a number of intelligent 
> IO cards for model railroad control. The modules are based on 
> ATMega8 (which I love). All modules are linked up to a RS485 
network 
> (up to 127) and talk to a PC (486@66MHz) running DOS. Yes, you read 
> well, DOS! This is because the program to control the railroad 
> (collision prevention, acceleration/decelleration of trains) must 
> run in real-time.
> 
> Next step is to develop a small controller to which I will port the 
> DOS application (about 15.000 lines of PASCAL code). For this 
> project I am very interested in using the LPC2106.
> 
> Since my controller will be manufactured in limited series 
> (batches of 10 or 20), and since I am a one man company, I am 
> looking for a low cost tool chain to develop, simulate, debug my 
> application. Preferrably I would like to have no code size limit as 
> in most starter kits (e.g. Hitex). Also I am using a Windows PC as 
a 
> host system 
> (Multi edit editor, GCC or Imagecraft ARM compiler when it will be 
> available).
> 
> One idea could be to buy a code size limited starter kit to test 
and 
> debug the hardware abstraction layer (uart driver, comm protocol) 
> for my application. The moment that is working, I could use the 
free 
> Borland C/C++ compiler to write, test and debug the functionality 
of 
> my application on PC (in a virtual environment). If all is right, 
> then I could compile the complete application for the ARM and test 
> it using classic debug techniques (control a led, send debug 
> messages over the uart). Of course this is productive than an 
> emulator but perhaps it could work.
> 
> Can anyone give me some good advice please?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Rudy
> Modeltech - Belgium
> www.modeltech.be (in Dutch and under construction for the moment)