Hi,
I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
also welcome.

Thanks,
Neo

"Neo" <z...@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
> I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
> hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
> decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
> with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
> for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
> Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
> also welcome.

Its a finger in the wind - you don't say what you want to do with it or what 
peripherals you require.

If you want low cost with built in debug capability then you could try a 
Cortex-M3 dev kit with Eclipse:
http://www.FreeRTOS.org/portLM3Sxxxx_Eclipse.html - even the USB cable comes 
with the kit.

-- 
Regards,
Richard.

+ http://www.FreeRTOS.org & http://www.FreeRTOS.org/shop
14 official architecture ports, 5000 downloads per month.

+ http://www.SafeRTOS.com
Certified by TÜV as meeting the requirements for safety related systems.

On 5 f=E9v, 18:58, Neo <zingafri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
> hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
> decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
> with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
> for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
> Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
> also welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Neo

Hello

The range of hardware tools is very wide.. It depends of your needs.

On Ebay, your can find dev. boards starting at 30 USD: "item" nr
110219947581 (lpc2103) for example

For free (and unlimited) developping/debugging tools, use Eclipse/GCC/
OpenOCD

A low (very) cost USB- JTAG device can be found here :
http://www.amontec.com/jtagkey-tiny.shtml , or you can build a (nearly
zero cost) "Wiggler" clone if your PC has a parallel port.

th.

On Feb 5, 11:17 pm, "FreeRTOS.org" <noem...@given.com> wrote:
> "Neo" <zingafri...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:3...@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
> > hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
> > decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
> > with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
> > for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
> > Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
> > also welcome.
>
> Its a finger in the wind - you don't say what you want to do with it or wh=
at
> peripherals you require.
>
> If you want low cost with built in debug capability then you could try a
> Cortex-M3 dev kit with Eclipse:http://www.FreeRTOS.org/portLM3Sxxxx_Eclips=
e.html- even the USB cable comes
> with the kit.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Richard.
>
> +http://www.FreeRTOS.org&http://www.FreeRTOS.org/shop
> 14 official architecture ports, 5000 downloads per month.
>
> +http://www.SafeRTOS.com
> Certified by T=DCV as meeting the requirements for safety related systems.=


Yeah, I am sorry for not stating my needs. Its more like playing with
the board and programming peripherals and maybe do some audio churning.

On Feb 5, 6:58 pm, Neo <zingafri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
> hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
> decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
> with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
> for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
> Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
> also welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Neo

Hi,

some more boards are also listed on the http://www.lpc2000.com website
for LPC2000 I like the boards from http://www.embeddedartists.com the
best.

An Schwob

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 06:11:20 -0800 (PST), An Schwob in the USA
<s...@aol.com> wrote:

>On Feb 5, 6:58 pm, Neo <zingafri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
>> hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
>> decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
>> with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
>> for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
>> Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
>> also welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neo
>
>Hi,
>
>some more boards are also listed on the http://www.lpc2000.com website
>for LPC2000 I like the boards from http://www.embeddedartists.com the
>best.
>

The LPC2000 series are quite buggy. Rather go for something from Atmel
or ST.

Regards
  Anton Erasmus

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:58:10 -0800 (PST), Neo <z...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
>hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
>decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
>with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
>for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
>Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
>also welcome.
>

The STM32-PRIMER is available for US$50. This looks like quite fun
thing to play with.

http://www.st.com/mcu/contentid-105-110-STM3210B_PRIMER.html
http://www.stm32circle.com/hom/index.php

It comes with the free version of the Resainonce RIDE IDE with
arm-elf-gcc integrated. 

Regards
  Anton Erasmus

"Neo" <z...@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:3...@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
> hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
> decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
> with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
> for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
> Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
> also welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Neo

You can get an ARM926 board based on the AT91SAM9260
which is an ARM9 running at ~200 MHz from www.olimex.com.
?139,95 which is about $200.
Due to its internal BootROM, you can program the device
using Atmel's SAM-BA S/W (Free) without need for JTAG.

The AVR32 Gateway (ATNGW100) is maybe an alternative.
Not ARM9 based, but the price is pretty hard to beat.
Sells for $89 at Digikey
* Includes 16 MB Flash and 32 MB SDRAM.
* Dual Ethernet controller
* SD-Card
* UART.
* Rest of the I/O are on headers
    and you should be able to connect an LCD, if you are handy.

As long as the board is booting, you can reprogram the
complete flash part from the U-Boot bootmonitor.
You *will* need a JTAG-ICE Mk II to reprogram the boot part of the flash
after a flash failure.

If you do not have a JTAG-ICE Mk II, it will probably be easy to
borrow one to fix the problem. There are plenty around.

Both AT91SAM9260 and the AVR32 will run a full Linux operating system.

The AVR32 Linux port is supported by Atmel, and there
is free gcc + an Eclipse based environment (AVR32 Studio)
You can download the linux board support package from
www.atmel.no/buildroot.
There is an AVR32 Forum at www.avrfreaks.net.


-- 
Best Regards,
Ulf Samuelsson
This is intended to be my personal opinion which may,
or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB

>Hi,
>I am trying to settle on some good ARM based development board for
>hobby use. I have looked at some LPC and STR boards but couldn't
>decide. I would prefer one based on ARM9 family, Do any of them come
>with a debugger at no extra cost? I am willing to shell out up to $200
>for the right one with a good amount of software thrown in.
>Please help me with your suggestions and any alternatives to above is
>also welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>Neo
>

might i suggest our Hammer Module: http://www.elinux.org/Hammer_board

its a Samsung S3C2410 200mhz ARM920T system in a 40 pin dip package. it
ships with opensource bootloader, linux 2.6 kernel, and uclibc based root
filsystem. it includes all sourcecode as well as schematics. it also
includes all the tools to build a complete tool chain. as a kit you can
also get the Flyswatter JTAG debugger board that comes with the opensource
debugging software OpenOCD. you are welcome to post questions on our forum
or discuss the Hammer on irc.freenode.net #edev channel.

http://www.tincantools.com

we are looking to build a community around the Hammer module and willing
to donate free hardware for cool/interesting projects as well as
documentation on the wiki pages.