Curious if anyone has experience with µEZ ("muse") libraries on LPC2000? =
What do you think?

http://www.teamfdi.com/development-tools-kits/uez.php

(no affiliation btw)

Am surveying what's out there to bring ARM a bit more within reach of hobby=
ists for myself and others.

I know of a handful of options like mbed, Leaf Labs' Maple, GHI Electronics=
' NETMF implementations, Ceridium's ARM BASIC, etc.

Just ran across µEZ last night and was surprised I hadn't heard of them b=
efore and thought I'd see if anyone else had.

Thanks,
Michael
http://www.bot-thoughts.com/







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--- In l..., Michael Shimniok wrote:
>
> Am surveying what's out there to bring ARM a bit more within reach of hobbyists for myself and others.
>
> I know of a handful of options like mbed, Leaf Labs' Maple, GHI Electronics' NETMF implementations, Ceridium's ARM BASIC, etc.
>

We had hobbyists as well as professionals in mind when designing our Oberon development system: Astrobe. There are LPC2000 and Cortex-M3 versions available:

http://www.astrobe.com

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software





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development platform ?

> Curious if anyone has experience with µEZ ("muse")
> libraries on LPC2000? What do you think?
>

We bought their LPC1788 + LCD kit to make a one off job for someone. I have=
done quite a bit of low level Arm programming (no OS or RTOS or anything) =
and found the libraries difficult to get to grips with as they operate at q=
uite a high level, very much abstracted from the hardware. Might just be me=
though.

If you are starting from scratch it may be a lot easier to learn, but you'r=
e then stuck using FDI products. In my opinion you'd be better off learning=
how to use the standard CMSIS libraries then you can go off with other boa=
rds.

--
Tim Mitchell





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Hi,

> If you are starting from scratch it may be a lot easier to learn, but
> you're then stuck using FDI products.

Actually not, uEZ is an open source project:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/uez/

You can move it to anything you want.

--
Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd   http://www.rowley.co.uk
SolderCore Development Platform http://www.soldercore.com





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Michael,

I'd be glad to answer any questions about our open source uEZ libraries fro=
m Future Designs.

Our libraries are designed to be portable between different processors and =
platforms and focuses on the whole package (RTOS, LCD, lwIP stack, USB, Fil=
e System, etc.). Although we focus on FDI products, like Paul says, there=
is nothing to keep you from moving the libraries to other platforms. We d=
o this all the time for our customer's custom hardware requirements.

The uEZ libraries are designed to provide common API access to most all pro=
cessors. Naturally, this requires a layer of abstraction that distances th=
e programmer from the low level hardware, but we have identified common pat=
terns seen on all processors and made it part of the API. Implementing new=
low level hardware drivers "properly" does take a bit of learning, but usu=
ally is very rewarding as all the other libraries will just work with it.

We are always glad to get feedback from our customers and the community. P=
ast input was used to make uEZ v2.00 even better over its previous version.

Lysle Shields
--- In l..., Michael Shimniok wrote:
>
> Curious if anyone has experience with µEZ ("muse") libraries on LPC2000=
? What do you think?
>
> http://www.teamfdi.com/development-tools-kits/uez.php
>
> (no affiliation btw)
>
> Am surveying what's out there to bring ARM a bit more within reach of hob=
byists for myself and others.
>
> I know of a handful of options like mbed, Leaf Labs' Maple, GHI Electroni=
cs' NETMF implementations, Ceridium's ARM BASIC, etc.
>
> Just ran across µEZ last night and was surprised I hadn't heard of them=
before and thought I'd see if anyone else had.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
> http://www.bot-thoughts.com/
>
>
>





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On 9/27/2012 10:50 PM, Michael Shimniok wrote:
>
> Curious if anyone has experience with µEZ ("muse") libraries on
> LPC2000? What do you think?
>
> http://www.teamfdi.com/development-tools-kits/uez.php
>
> (no affiliation btw)
>
> Am surveying what's out there to bring ARM a bit more within reach of
> hobbyists for myself and others.
>
> I know of a handful of options like mbed, Leaf Labs' Maple, GHI
> Electronics' NETMF implementations, Ceridium's ARM BASIC, etc.
>
> Just ran across µEZ last night and was surprised I hadn't heard of
> them before and thought I'd see if anyone else had.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
> http://www.bot-thoughts.com/
>

Two Kickstarter projects you may be interested in are Teensy 3.o and Galago=
.

The main feature of Teensy 3.0 is an affordable 32 bit ARM Cortex-M4
board, for development in Arduino or C/C++. For more information see:
rtex-m4-usable-in-arduino-a>
The first Teensy 3.0 boards were shipped on 9/24/12 and links to the
first release of the Arduino IDE compatible software were posted on
9/26/12. I estimate Teensy 3.0 boards will be available to non-pledge
buyers in the second half of November 2012 with an estimated cost of
$28.00.

Here is what Kay Manwaring says about Galago.
"Galago is a tiny revolution in rapid electronics prototyping. It
combines a powerful ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller with a hardware
debugger on a tiny circuit board, allowing hobbyists and professionals
alike to turn project ideas into reality faster and better than other
microcontroller platforms. *Galago's debugger is the difference between
starting a project ... and finishing it.*"
The above is quite a claim and I am sure there are lot of people with
way more experience than I have who are shaking their head.

For more information see:

I estimate a Galago board will be available to non-pledge buyers
sometime between December 2012 and January 2013 with an estimated cost
of $25.00.

Howard







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