JTAG debugger recomendations

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-09-27, David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Abatron BDI-2000 works very good.  Available in the US from
>>>Ultimate Solutions, Inc.  Web: www.ultsol.com, Also available
>>>from Microcross bundled with GNU tools. www.microcross.com
>>
>>Do you need separate BDI-2000 units, or separate licences, for each 
>>target type?
> 
> 
> IIRC, the latter.  I think the way it worked was that for each
> target family there is a firmware set you download.  And I
> think ARM7 and StronARM were different target families.  Your
> local Abatron distributor could probobably provide a definitive
> answer.
> 
> 
>>The BDI-2000 is pretty expensive, but if the one purchase 
>>supports ColdFires, MPC, and ARM, then it is a lot better
>>value for money.
> 
> 
> It is a bit expensive, but it's a top-notch product that
> supports GDB remote natively[1], and has a telnet interface for
> doing bare-bones stuff.  It also has a flash-programming mode
> for programming ROMs on the uController's external bus.
> 
> The other units I looked at all required an external server
> program to translate between GDB's remote protocol and some
> proprietary protocol.   The people I talked to who were running
> units like that said that it generally worked, but it was a
> PITA to set up and maintain.
> 

I thought it was something like that.  I've heard only good things about 
Abatron, as long as the price is not a problem :-)

Amontec, Larry wrote:
<snip>

> 
> Try Chameleon POD from Amontec (www.amontec.com), and the ARM Debug 
> ValuePack. It works fine with GNU tools, IAR or Greenhills debuggers.
> 
> ... very low cost and 30x faster than the bitbangged Wiggler.
> 
> Larry
> 
> 

Does the Cameleon POD have the same sort of pricing model as the Abatron 
BDI-2000, with extra targets costing for a firmware license and possibly 
a new cable?  Or do you get support for every target with a single purchase?

mvh.,

David