Lpc2000

>> 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 ? :).
 
> 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.

I agree.  I tried the IAR MakeApp and in the end it really just ended 
up wasting my time.  I yanked all the MA code out and wrote it myself.

We'd all like to save time and have some RAD tool setup the periphs 
for us.  Unfortunately there's just no free lunch.  As soon as you 
have problems with the RAD setup and some periphs you have to dive 
into the hundreds of pages of chip doc anyway.  Worse yet, you then 
have to dive into the RAD code and figure out what it is actually 
doing that you may or may not want or expected.

In the end you will have to understand the inner workings of the 
periph registers.  In most cases there is just no way around that.

I think what's most helpful is looking at example code.  That's 
really what I ended up doing with the MakeApp code.  But a couple of 
other good design examples would have sufficed as well.

The time is not in writing the simple init code for the periphs, the 
time is in understanding the operation of the periphs. 

Chris.