Lpc2000

Hi Paul, I haven't seen the original msg from John yet (mail ordering 
problem?), so I will go ahead and answer yours...

At 07:40 PM 1/3/2005, Paul Curtis wrote:


>John,
>
> > Imagecraft released a beta 1 version of the ARM compiler.
> > Simple editor and compiler.
> > One thing I liked is Application Builder, one I am missing in
> > CrossWorks. Are you there Paul ? :).
>
>There are just too many ARM variants in the world to make such a thing
>viable, hence RAL's focus on providing a nice IDE with integrated (and
>extensible) flash loading and integrated debugging--and support for ARM9
>and XScale in the v1.3 release.  Personally, I like writing my own code
>to drive peripherals and set up a chip rather than get something else to
>set it up for me--at some point, it's inevitable that you need to read
>the data sheet.

Everyone has (to find) its own niche. For us, it's the most features for 
the best price / performance ratio. The AppBuilder does not replace the 
data sheet but do save a lot of time.


> > Not just for begining a project, but also a quick way to
> > compare the different ARM CPU to each other. (LPC2104 to
> > AT91SAM7S32) Nice feature Imagecraft.
> >

Thanks John. Since the AppBuilder is a big piece of work, if you have some 
other ARM micros you like, pls bug the silicon manufacturers to contact us 
and may be support us with a few clams. I know it's more difficult than 
squeezing blood from rocks but you never know until you try. We are 
committed to supporting the Philips LPC series and the Atmel SAM series. No 
plan to support anything else yet until we see a reason to... We expect to 
be the major player in the "ARM compilers for the masses" market but we do 
only have limited resources.

>
> > One thing I am missing is the debugging feature, how is this
> > done in Imagecraft ?

*raise hand* I do, I do :-)

Nohau EMUL-ARM/Seehau directly supports our DBG debug file, and we do emit 
ELF/DWARF2 per the DWARF2 documentation so in theory, any DWARF capable 
debuggers (that should be all of them) should work.

>Dunno.
>
>--
>Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd  http://www.rowley.co.uk
>CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, and now AVR processors

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com)