Em Ter 28 Fev 2006 11:26, mfrazier@... escreveu:
> Are you using a purchased development board or one that you made yourself?
> If it's a purchased board, which one is it and who made it?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
First I buyed a development board from a brazilian vendor called Elaxys
(www.elaxys.com.br), I am using the EX_LPC_M01 wich is just nice, and cheap
(for brazilian prices, our import taxes are simply abusive and a board
assembled here become much more cheaper). With that board I made a few
firmwares, and the board comes with a CDROM that contains tha gnuarm ready to
use in Linux and Windows (of course, I use Linux), a lot of libraries made by
Elaxys wich is MIT licensed (as seen on
http://www.elaxys.com.br/produtos/lpc/ex-lpc-lib1/ but unfortunatelly only in
portuguese) wich have nice functions, like one to made an routine a ISR (I
cound not find how to do it in gnuarm alone, I can only made an ISR with
these libraries), I buyed an Wiggler JTAG and comes in the CD too a program
to connect GDB to the paralell port (the program is called exmon and can be
downloaded from the Elaxys site).
With that baord I tested the ISP program from Philips, and lpc2isp. Then I
designed my own board, uploaded some firmwares and I am testing right now.
It is now really nice to develop im my board, because I made an ISP header
that have an ON-OFF switch to power the entirelly board, and another switch
that puts P0.14 low. And a DB9 caonnector to connect to the computer serial
port. So, When I power the board with the ISP switch on, I load the firmware.
Then I power off, turn the ISP switch off, turn the board on and the firmware
runs, very nice.
I developed a lot with PIC microcontrollers, using Microchip ICSP but I
allways had to plug and unplug the ISCP connector, the ISP is just great.
Ah! another neat feature, I use UART1 in my system, and I use UART0 as a
debug-out (I send bytes like opcodes to show me what the firmware is doing)
so I use the same serial connection to read these caracters in minicom.
Really nice...