> Or Arm-duino? :-)
> http://www.xduino.com/platform/arm-cortex-m3/
> http://www.bugblat.com/products/cor.html
> http://blogs.leaflabs.com/2009/07/arduino-cortex-m3-maple/
>
> I am actually looking at this one since the author was a
> leading developer of OpenOCD at one time.
> http://arttools.blogspot.com/2009/09/using-stm32-based-board-for-arduino.html
> (code here http://github.com/mlu/arduino-stm32)

A friend comments:

NXP (Philips as it was) provide quite an interesting development
environment for their lower-end ARM processors called "mbed" which is
built around a web-based compiler (although I seem to recall seeing
people grumbling about the lack of a debugger  - but that may have
been addressed by now).  I haven't had time to investigate it at any
length so I don't know how effective it is.

The main page is here:

http://mbed.org/

and there is a Circuit Cellar article here:

http://ics.nxp.com/support/documents/microcontrollers/pdf/article.mbed.circuit.cellar.pdf

As far as I know it's free (although you presumably have to buy the
little DIL-packaged hardware module)  - but I imagine you would need
to register.

It would be interesting to see the "license" agreement, and in
particular what the story is as far as design security goes.  No doubt
users are kept apart from one another but I wonder if NXP can resist
the temptation to "peek" at the sort of things that people were doing
and use that information to guide future



                RM
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