[time-nuts] Frequency Dividers

[SAIDJACK at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/11/2006 09:57:18 Pacific Daylight Time,  
glenn at net127.com writes:
 
Hi Glenn, Didier,
 
if you plan to use an RTOS with it (many are freely available for these  
chips) which really helps with house-keeping for timing applications, then I  
highly recommend the Arm JTAG debugger. The Sparkfun eval board has a connector  
for it, and they sell JTAG debuggers as well.
 
An RTOS makes initializing/controlling GPS receivers, and capturing data  
from these quite easy.
 
Otherwise the Printf via serial port, or a character LCD works wonders (I  
posted LCD driver code for the Arm on the yahoo LPC2000 newsgroup some time ago, 
 glueless connection between LCD and Arm).
 
bye,
Said

>Hi  Said,
>
>Thanks for the info, I did check the Philips (and  Sparkfun) web site(s) 
>and I must admit the ARM chip is cheap and has  impressive 
>specifications. With the GNU tools, I know it will work and  it will fit 
>my homebrewer's budget :-) I used to consider $99 for a  development kit 
>cheap, but $29 beats it with good  margin.
>
>At that price, I don't see how I could pass on a chance  to evaluate it, 
>if not for the fact that I have so much 8051 code (and  a Franklin 
>compiler, wich is similar to the Keil)
>   
>

Please let me know how your eval  goes.

thanks,
glenn