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<br><div><div>On 7/01/2009, at 12:59 , Charles Manning wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">The gcc toolchain for ARM is free<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">and very good and you can even make yourself a JTAG debugger for ARM for less<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">than $10.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That same gcc toolchain is used in all sorts of environments<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">including cell phones etc.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">If I am power/size constrained then I'll use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>AVR + C.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Unfortunately the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">debugging protocols etc are under wraps which means that there are no cheap<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">debugging tools (though the other dev tools are free).</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>Try <a href="http://www.scienceprog.com/build-your-own-avr-jtagice-clone/">http://www.scienceprog.com/build-your-own-avr-jtagice-clone/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I bought one a couple of years ago that was quite cheap. Cannot remember where from right now.</div><div><br></div><div>Howard</div></body></html>