Hi All,

I have to start working over Motorola MCORE microcontroller.

Can anybody suggest any doc(data sheet) and web sites from where i can
get initial information.

Can anyone please give me overview of the MCORE as i am completly new
to this controller.

Thanks in advance.
Ram

"Ram" <r...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I have to start working over Motorola MCORE microcontroller.
>
> Can anybody suggest any doc(data sheet) and web sites from where i can
> get initial information.
>
> Can anyone please give me overview of the MCORE as i am completly new
> to this controller.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Ram
>

Hello,

Look in www.freescale.com - plenty of data on MCORE there (Mototola no 
longer make processors - Freescale is the spin off that does.)

If you have a choice for a new project this may not be the best part - 
Motorola decided not to take it any further several years ago and I don't 
expect Freescale will change that decision. The processors are fine - just 
don't expect any new parts in the family. I think you'll be stuck with Code 
Warrior (not very nice when I used it with MCORE a few years agao) or a 
rather old open source port.

Freescale do some nice ARM, PowerPC and ColdFire parts with similar 
peripherals which are probably rather more mainstream for them.

Michael Kellett

www.mkesc.co.uk

On Jun 4, 9:11 pm, Ram <ramr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have to start working over Motorola MCORE microcontroller.
>
> Can anybody suggest any doc(data sheet) and web sites from where i can
> get initial information.
>
> Can anyone please give me overview of the MCORE as i am completly new
> to this controller.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Ram

Ram, the best document to study would be the datasheet of your mcu.
And secondly, have a look at freescale website. You can find tons of
information there from audio/video tutorials to reading material. And
finally you need to get familiar with their 'service request' web
interface, i must say that thats the best support i've ever had ;)

As another poster pointed that you will endup with code warrior and i
do think its bit mature now over the time (e.g. 5.x versions),
especially the 'Processor Expert'  is something very nice and handy to
make a prototype in no time.


ali

Ali <a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As another poster pointed that you will endup with code warrior and i
> do think its bit mature now over the time (e.g. 5.x versions),
> especially the 'Processor Expert'  is something very nice and handy to
> make a prototype in no time.
> 

Personally I've never liked CodeWarrior - it's fine if you want to
remain within the IDE forever, but if you're more used to a command line
and Makefiles, you'll find it's not the most congenial environment. 

pete
-- 
p...@fenelon.com "how many clever men have called the sun a fool?"

In article <W...@bt.com>, n...@please.com 
says...
> 
> "Ram" <r...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have to start working over Motorola MCORE microcontroller.
> >
> > Can anybody suggest any doc(data sheet) and web sites from where i can
> > get initial information.
> >
> > Can anyone please give me overview of the MCORE as i am completly new
> > to this controller.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Ram
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Look in www.freescale.com - plenty of data on MCORE there (Mototola no 
> longer make processors - Freescale is the spin off that does.)
> 
> If you have a choice for a new project this may not be the best part - 
> Motorola decided not to take it any further several years ago and I don't 
> expect Freescale will change that decision. The processors are fine - just 
> don't expect any new parts in the family. I think you'll be stuck with Code 
> Warrior (not very nice when I used it with MCORE a few years agao) or a 
> rather old open source port.
> 
> Freescale do some nice ARM, PowerPC and ColdFire parts with similar 
> peripherals which are probably rather more mainstream for them.
> 
> Michael Kellett
> 
> www.mkesc.co.uk
> 
> 
Note also that debug hardware for MCore is as scarce as hen's teeth, and 
only slightly more effective.

--Gene

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:06:57 -0000, Ali <a...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jun 4, 9:11 pm, Ram <ramr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have to start working over Motorola MCORE microcontroller.
>>
>> Can anybody suggest any doc(data sheet) and web sites from where i can
>> get initial information.
>>
>> Can anyone please give me overview of the MCORE as i am completly new
>> to this controller.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Ram
>
>Ram, the best document to study would be the datasheet of your mcu.
>And secondly, have a look at freescale website. You can find tons of
>information there from audio/video tutorials to reading material. And
>finally you need to get familiar with their 'service request' web
>interface, i must say that thats the best support i've ever had ;)
>
>As another poster pointed that you will endup with code warrior and i
>do think its bit mature now over the time (e.g. 5.x versions),
>especially the 'Processor Expert'  is something very nice and handy to
>make a prototype in no time.

Even the old gcc generated quite good code for the mcore. From the gcc
documentation it looks like mcore has been folded into the main source
code, so one can build an mcore cross compiler based on the 4.2 source
tree. This would probably generate very good code.

Regards
  Anton Erasmus

On Jun 4, 9:11 am, Ram <ramr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have to start working over Motorola MCORE microcontroller.
>
> Can anybody suggest any doc(data sheet) and web sites from where i can
> get initial information.
>
> Can anyone please give me overview of the MCORE as i am completly new
> to this controller.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Ram

Hi,

On Jun 4, 9:11 am, Ram <ramr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have to start working over Motorola MCORE microcontroller.
>
> Can anybody suggest any doc(data sheet) and web sites from where i can
> get initial information.
>
> Can anyone please give me overview of the MCORE as i am completly new
> to this controller.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Ram

Hi,
 It's a shame Motorola/Freescale isn't growing that processor family
any more.  I've been using it for about 6 years and found it to be an
excellent part.  It is reasonably low power considering the peripheral
set and the CodeWarrior tools that we use make pretty tight code.
You'll need the data sheet MMC2114AD.pdf as a minimum and an IDE from
someone.  As I said, I use the CodeWarrior tools but there are
others.  You'll need a debugger pod from someone(Freescale EBDI or
equivalent).  The interrupt structure is radically different from the
low end 8 bit parts you may be used to but very nice once you get
going and begin to understand it.  If you are looking at a new
project, I would recommend going with a Freescale ColdFire instead.
That family is growing stronger and the MCF5214 is practically the
same part.  The core is different but the peripheral set is the same.