Lpc2000

Dave, 

> Absolutely right - nothing worse than being tied into expensive dev. 
> tools! 
> 
> I hate to go on about Silicon Labs, but Philips apps should 
> look at how Silicon labs support their USB 8051. They offer a 
> USB library including source for both PC & MCU for interrupt 
> & bulk modes. 

Yep, and their customers get to debug it for them...  However, I think
all my fixes have made it into the shipping firmware now.  There were
some real problems in early drops.

? To use the software you need to purchase a USB 
> dev kit (~$200). They offer another library but its based 
> around Keil (excellent tool but
> expensive)
> 
> If Philips are going to really make this device take off they 
> should offer a free USB stack (plus documentation!) or a low 
> cost one which comes as part of a dev kit.

Only half the equation--you need something on the PC end.  Beside, they
advertise Micrium supporting it, so one would expect that other 3Ps
would put in some effort.

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