I think that something is better than nothing and $50 is better than $100.
I'd like to see it program the other chips though. That way, you could use
it as a single development device and debug the targets that are being
stimulated and tested via your test bench with a register monitor and other
traditional debug methods.

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Dan Michaels
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 22:22
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Jim Newton's Idea
Importance: Low

There is another possiblity here, too. I can put my Monitor/Testbench
chip on a board, add a PC shell program, and sell a kit for say $50 as
the "World's Smallest Cheapest TestBench". It might not be open-source,
but it would be cheap. What do you think?

- Dan Michaels
Oricom Technologies
http://www.sni.net/~oricom