(starting a new thread about this, to tidy things up a bit... )
Joerg, Graham, David ! Your latest comments now make me lean towards the ICE-Cube again now, this discussion is like a roller coaster ! ;-) I selected the Mega32-16PI and will probably stick with it in the mid term, as it's the most versatile (many IO pins, a good mix of peripherals, and a decent amount of memory) chip available in DIP package. I can't use other packages as I don't have the equipment to handle them, and DIP packages are the most practical to use when developing/testing the Hardware on a prototyping board. So if the Mk1 can unleash the full potential of the mega32 JTAG interface, and given that avarice/gdb can exploit it, then in my particular case, the Mk2 would give me no real benefit. I guess buying a cheap clone is risky, but the ICE-Cube looks like a good alround quality unit judging by the pics, and I guess it works well, otherwise it would be rather suicidal from Graham to openly advertise it here ;-) The ICE-Cube is fairly priced, and the US dollar being still very weak against the Euro, makes it even cheaper :-) I think I won't resist buying one for X-mas... In the meantime, I will try to learn how to use GDB... my only attempt last week was a total failure, oops... Any tutorial available on the net somewhere, to teach the basics of it, how it works and how to operate it ?? -- Vince _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
