Design contest.

Luminary site shows free eval kit with entry.
Circuit Cellar site has a link to reduced price ($39) eval kits.

http://circuitcellar.com/designstellaris2006/

http://www.luminarymicro.com/designstellaris2006



-----Original Message-----
>From: William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com>
>Sent: Oct 27, 2006 7:21 PM
>To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>Subject: Re: [PIC] ARM7..should I take the plunge?
>
>
>On Oct 27, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Marc Nicholas wrote:
>
>> Have you look at ARM assembly in detail? There's some
>> interesting "quirks".
>
>Heh.  That's for sure.
>
>Don't forget that you have to go three or four deep in manual
>"pointing."  I've been playing with the Luminary Cortex M3 parts
>a bit, and you go from data sheet to Cortex architecture document
>to ARM7 architecture document to ARM Architecture document before
>you get a full picture of what "assembly language" is supposed to
>look like (I hope.  I haven't actually found an ARM ARM.  I think
>it's a book you have to buy.)
>
>I'm not sure that the gnu assembler (gas) that accompanies the C 
>compiler
>is really well-suited toward writing code in pure assembly language.
>It tends to being a very generic multiple-cpu sort of thing whose syntax
>doesn't match much of anything else, rather lacking in the features
>that the average assembly language programmer expects (like macros.)
>I haven't gotten far enough in my searching to see if there's a more
>capable open-source assembler for ARM (for instance, there are several
>for Atmel AVR.)
>
>And assembler seems foreign to the ARM crowd.  One of the things you
>DO find at Luminary is an extensive library of primitives for dealing
>with all of their on-chip peripherals (and 200+ pages of documentation
>for the library!), all written in C.
>
>BillW
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