Lpc2000

>> IAR's MakeApp is a crap program I've tried it and disliked

I do not agree with that.  It is certainly not a "crap" program, 
rather it is a very complex program that has lofty goals.  One can 
certainly argue about the effectiveness and usefulness of its goals, 
but IAR put a tremendous amount of work into that beast.

Richard's approach is merely to setup and do some basic register 
inits.  That's fine and may or may not be better.  But bare in mind 
that MakeApp spits out code that enables you to instantly make high 
level calls to read/write data arrays over I2C, SPI, UARTs, etc.  
MakeApp is a lot more than just some basic inits.  At the minimum, it 
is a very good source of example code that goes far deeper into 
actual periph operation and usage.

I ran a lot of their routines and everything I tested worked just 
fine.  My biggest complaint was the shear volume of MakeApp code 
generated.  Heavily commented with a large scale structure and that 
makes it very deep and time consuming to wade through.  There's just 
so much of it.  But it is very well written and extremely well 
organized.

I found it highly useful as a powerful library of examples.  That's 
how it saved me time, and it certainly saved me more than $200 worth 
of time.  It had no problem paying for itself.

Chris.