Hi All
I have just put a demo of the new Coldfire (M52235EVB) on-line.
The demo project runs on the NE64 and also on the Coldfire, allowing=20
upgrades from the NE64 to the Coldfire by simply changing a compiler=20
define.
Contact the demo project at
http://212.254.22.36/
and see the board via web cam at http://212.254.22.36:8080
The demo (using uTasker Operating system with integrated TCP/IP=20
stack) allows you to type in your email address and it sends you a=20
welcome mail. It allows control of the LEDs on the EVB on the I/O=20
web page and allows various setups and statistic monitoring on other=20
web pages.
It also supports ftp (for loading and changing web pages) and telnet=20
(with an example menu control of various set-ups). Try it and see=20
what you think.
The Coldfire is available as samples and on EVB and Demo boards. It=20
comes with 128k limited ColdWarrior version and BDM for as little as=20
$99 for the demo board.
The demo project occupies about 64k so the evaluation Coldfire=20
version is adequate for powerful projects!!
By the way, the uTasker is free for educational and hobby use -=20
including free email support - and available for MC9S12NE64 and the=20
new Coldfire M5223X family (swap and change projects with a=20
define!!). The uTasker real-time simulator alone reduces real=20
development times by over 60%.
A commercial, royalty free project license costs $485 incl. 3 months=20
personal email support and pays for itself in a day. The NE64=20
project comes as ready-to-run IAR, GNU or CODEWARRIOR project and=20
the COLDIRE project comes as ready-to-run CODEWARRIOR project.
See the simple licensing terms (with application for free=20
educational license) here:
http://www.mjbc.ch/documents/uTasker/License.txt
To learn about the operating system basics, see the following=20
document:
http://www.mjbc.ch/documents/uTasker/uTaskerV1.2.PDF
A tutorial can be found her, including code size comparisons between=20
various compilers:
http://www.mjbc.ch/documents/uTasker/NE64/uTaskerV1.2-Tutorial.PDF
Regards
Mark Butcher
www.mjbc.ch
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Mark Butcher wrote this message on Sun, May 14, 2006 at 19:03 -0000:
> The Coldfire is available as samples and on EVB and Demo boards. It
> comes with 128k limited ColdWarrior version and BDM for as little as
> $99 for the demo board.
Do you have the demo board yet? It appears Freescale doesn't want to
sell them yet, instead they want to sell you their presentation w/
it (at no additional cost) which means you have to wait till they
decided to come to your city.. :(
Some distributors are suppose to have it, but the one that I checked
doesn't have it available for on-line ordering..
And this is of course after they make the announcement that the M52233
is available now in their press release. Now over a month ago. Why
announce a product before people can play with it, I don't know how
often I've forgotten about a product because the time between availability
and announcement was too long.
--
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