Nothing personal, but I have always considered CW to be complete and total
sh*t.  For PC dev atleast.  Haven't used their products for the Freescale
processors, but unless they have fundamentally changed their s/w, well uh,
ick.


On 1/16/06, Luis Moreira <Luis.Moreira@jet.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys
> I have been using CodeWarrior for a long time now and it works really
> well. I now use almost exclusively Freescale MCU HC8 and HC12, tools are
> cheap look at Softec and the site you should look at is
> www.freegeeks.net.
> Best regards
>                 Luis
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of kravnus wolf
> Sent: 15 January 2006 13:40
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [PIC] Come to the Dark Side (tm) - Free Code
> WarriorforfreeScaleprocessors (16 kB C)
>
> FreeScale "Official" development tools are expensive!
> I don't see one for students....... Are they
> serious in competing with Microchip?
>
>
> John
>
> --- Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 1/15/06, Russell McMahon
> > <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > > I have a friend who is reasonably knowledgeable on
> > industry directions
> > > and every time I send him any Microchip 'ra ra'
> > material, while he is
> > > heavily committed in other areas, he recites the
> > same basic mantra -
> > > ie 'ARM is it, the whole world is going to ARM,
> > the future is an ARM
> > > future, those who are not already on the ARM
> > bandwagon are in danger
> > > of missing the future, ...' .
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > (I've BCC'd this to him).
> >
> > I think he might be correct and PIC24/dsPIC may not
> > be able to
> > compete well with low end ARM in the 16bit/32bit
> > market.
> >
> > Maybe Higher-end 8-bit market will lose to low end
> > ARM as well.
> > It will take time though.
> >
> > Still in the 8-bit market, PIC and MCS51 clones will
> > rule. How long
> > will it take to get a 6-pin or 8-pin ARM MCU? ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Xiaofan
> >
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