On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
>> HOWEVER, this thing comes in a WLCSP Package (Wafer Level Chip Scale
>> Package), which is essentially a 4x4 Ball Grid Array with 0.5mm
>> spacing. =A0Not hobbyist friendly at all :-(
>
> There are other LPC110x chips that are within serious-hobbyist and
> small-scale-professional friendly packages.
>
> Otherwise, wait for the 'serious' companies to make breakoutboards with
> the chip on it. Or check something like
> http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/boards/lpc1343_qsb.php : E
> 15.00, LPC1343, which has USB mass-storage emulation *with can be used
> to download the firmware! who needs a programmer?* Does a compareable
> 18F PIC (32Kb flash, 8 Kb RAM) even exist?
>


I think the LPCXpresso can be used for hobbyist to work on LPC1xxx.
It has some limitations but may be good for a lot of hobbyists. Windows
and Linux are both supported.
http://ics.nxp.com/lpcxpresso/



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