Thanks a lot for the link.  What is the demo board are you 
using in the institute? The JTAG wiggler and the boards are
not that expensive (but hard to be built by oneself because 
of the footprint) so that I may consider to buy one. Which board
will you recommend? My initial target is quite modest,
just to get familiar with the LPC2xxx chips and the assembler
and C compiler. 

The IDE looks quite nice. Sorry but I think there are missing 
files in the ram-rom.zip (main.c, etc). It is a pity that the site
is not in English.

Regards,
Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Wouter van Ooijen 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:31 PM
...
IMHO the step above the PIC/AVR should not be the 30F or a high-end AVR
but an ARM or another high-end processor (I am not familiar with others,
but they probably exist).
...
Check Olimex. The Philips ARMs have a build-in bootloader and can be
programmed with a JTAG wiggler (also available from Olimex). The IDE we
used in my classes can be found at
http://et.fnt.hvu.nl/et/docenten/Bent/arm/ARMDevEnv.exe (GNU C,
Assembler), the latest basic project files are at
http://www.voti.nl/hvu/D3EEMS1/ram-rom.zip. For next school year I might
integrate Java into the IDE.

Wouter van Ooijen
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