Hello,
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:06:18 +0000 joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
I ordered this FPGA dev system:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1575992013/logi-fpga-development-board-f...
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I found it has a $2 LPC1343 ARM cortex chip which has within it which has USB MSD or MSC (Media Storage Device/Class) driver built into the ROM of the chip! Just connect the USB and it will open as an attached mass storage device, and then drag and drop files into it to program it!
I can't find any more such chips from NXP. (The ones that are available with USB require software to be developed and programmed into the device that turns it into an MSD - which is great if you got the time.)
Well, STM32s with USB have builtin bootloader with DFU protocol support. No drag and drop for apple hipsters, everyone else just fires dfutool.
The IDE is by Code-Red which is Eclipse and it is available for Linux. NXP have bought them out recently and now 256k of code generated by it doesn't require a license.
Good find for apple hipsters. Everyone else uses gcc anyway - for all chips and architectures.
NXP has very arrogant sampling policy - http://www.nxp.com/policy "THIS SERVICE IS ONLY OPEN TO CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE DIRECT PURCHASING AGREEMENTS WITH NXP." So, unless you're a big customer, you can't get sample of new stuff either. They think they're fscking broadcom or allwinner. But unlike those, they don't have competitive mass-market products, so nobody kneels and begs, people just don't buy their stuff. So, they can't ramp up their production, that's why http://uk.farnell.com/nxp/lpc812m101jdh16/mcu-32bit-cortex-m0-30mhz-16tssop/... is "Awaiting Delivery" for an fscking year, and that DIP8 ARM chip is just unreachable. Because seriously, who needs ARM in DIP8? Only hobbyists, and NXP shits on hobbyists.