"DirtDobber" <ddobber@abc123@.biz> wrote in message 
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> If so, what is your opinion of technical support and Metrowerks tool set.
>

Not using metrowerks.

Using a few boards from www.newmicros.com and their isomax / forth language 

DirtDobber wrote:
> If so, what is your opinion of technical support and Metrowerks tool set.

I am using the 56F807 for a motor control system I am designing as a 
home project. I have not tried the technical support, I figured out what 
I needed from the documentation. The documentation is OK to pretty good. 
There have been a couple of errors in the documnetation that caused some 
real head scratching, but I was able to get it sorted out. I did not use 
the canned "bean" functions for dealing with the peripheral hardware 
set, I wrote all my own peripheral handling code and the documentation 
has supported doing this without much pain.

The Metroworks tool set has been decent. I am not especially fond of 
IDE's but I can work with it. The compiler/linker has not had any bugs 
that I have found. The debugger has worked pretty well.

The peripheral set on the '807 is excellent for closed loop motor 
control and the processor is fast enough to not have to be too frugal in 
the coding.

Good Luck,
Bob

If so, what is your opinion of technical support and Metrowerks tool set.