In message <41CC2A36.2090504@circuitwerkes.com>
          Alex Parkinson <alex@circuitwerkes.com> wrote:

> I had a class in which we designed a board with the 5206e.  It had a 4MB DRAM module and 
> 1MB of Flash and ran uCLinux ( www.uclinux.org ).  We used a port of gcc with gdb to 
> program it.  Although we had a good teacher to help us out, there were no major snags or 
> gotchas.  The Coldfires are pretty nice and relatively easy-to-use microcontrollers.  I 
> recommend playing around with them.  If you want to have a look at the class website, 
> there's plenty of useful links. http://www.lynch.ece.ufl.edu/EEL5745/5745main.html

Thanks for that - I'll have a good look through those links when I get a few
minutes spare. What I would like to know is if it's possible to use (abuse?)
the CPU's JTAG port to program the Flash ROM while it's in circuit. If not,
I'm going to need a few adapters for my EPROM programmer :-/
My intention was to hook a Coldfire up to a Xilinx gate array and a
touchscreen LCD to make a simple eBook reader. I'd probably use a 32MB SDRAM
DIMM and clock the CPU at about 33MHz, then use one of the Samsung LCDs that
EarthLCD are selling as a display. That is, unless anyone knows of another
source of low-cost 320x240 res (or higher) 3" or so backlit touchscreen PDA
LCDs.

Later.
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