[chbot] C vs C++ and embedded

Charles Manning manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz
Wed Jan 7 01:16:40 GMT 2009


On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:11:12 QtuTrains wrote:
> On 7/01/2009, at 12:59 , Charles Manning wrote:
> > The gcc toolchain for ARM is free
> > and very good and you can even make yourself a JTAG debugger for
> > ARM for less
> > than $10.  That same gcc toolchain is used in all sorts of
> > environments
> > including cell phones etc.
> >
> > If I am power/size constrained then I'll use  AVR + C.
> > Unfortunately the
> > debugging protocols etc are under wraps which means that there are
> > no cheap
> > debugging tools (though the other dev tools are free).
>
> Try http://www.scienceprog.com/build-your-own-avr-jtagice-clone/

Interesting... This only seems to support the JTAG interface for the larger 
AVR devices. It seems that the smaller devices that use the one-wire debug 
protocol are not supported. Pity :-(.

-- Charles





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