TOSHIBA TLCS-900 C Compiler

I am trying to find a C-Compiler for a cipherLabs CPT-8000 batch
barcode scanner, I am doing a project for uni and I need to program
one of these units using C, the compiler however costs a couple of
hundred dollars which i am unable to afford.

I know that the unit runs on a TOSHIBA TLCS-900 16-bit MCU and
that I need the compiler from toshiba. If anyone knows one knows where
i can get a copy of this compiler pls let me know, thanks

"Mike Mullen" <csuaac@warwick.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> I am trying to find a C-Compiler for a cipherLabs CPT-8000 batch
> barcode scanner, I am doing a project for uni and I need to program
> one of these units using C, the compiler however costs a couple of
> hundred dollars which i am unable to afford.
>
> I know that the unit runs on a TOSHIBA TLCS-900 16-bit MCU and
> that I need the compiler from toshiba. If anyone knows one knows where
> i can get a copy of this compiler pls let me know, thanks

This is one of those places where your professor can help, by asking Toshiba to
supply a compiler on an educational license.

Vendors generally look kindly on requests from university professors for
assistance with student projects.

>I know that the unit runs on a TOSHIBA TLCS-900 16-bit MCU and

Do _not_ try IAR compiler - I have one for TLCS900/H/L... with errors
in both compiler and debugger. When I wrote to IAR about these errors,
I got response (after 3 months of ping-pong) "We're not _interested_
in correcting these errors"!!!!


Now I'm using only cores with gcc support.


-- 
Jerry