Lpc2000

I'm facing a similar situation in that, before I can do much of 
*anything*, I have to buy *something* (several something's in fact). 
Not knowing much about the various products, the array of choices 
seems quite large, almost to the point of being overwhelming. 

From reading posts in this group, it also appears that there are 
some incompatibilities that prevent an XYZ development board from 
working with a QRST adapter if you're using the ABCD development 
environment. If cost were no object, that wouldn't be a problem. On 
the other hand, I hesitate to buy things when I may later discover 
that two of the things I've bought just can't work together.

At this point, I'm still wading through datasheets, product 
brochures, postings in this group, and various other documentation 
trying to sort things out. I have to wonder if there's some minimal, 
sure-to-work-together, (reasonably) low-cost development setup to 
get started with. 


Regards, Bob

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "ooggie01" <ooggie01@y...> wrote:
> 
> I just got a new Philips LPC-MT-2106 development board from Olimex 
> (http://www.olimex.com/dev/lpc-mt.html) but I'm not sure what 
> software and hardware to use with it.  I got a JTAG programmer 
> dongle (http://www.sparkfun.com/shop/index.php?shop=1&cat=74) but 
I 
> can't find any free flash programmer software that can use a 
> parallel port.  Maybe I should buy a different dongle.
> 
> I'm looking for hardware/software setup recommendations.  Any 
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas