Re: Arduino Due vs Mac

[darek <darek.maksimiuk@gmail.com>]

On Monday, 6 July 2015 23:07:59 UTC+2, Simon Wright  wrote:
> Tero Koskinen  writes:
> 
> > Instead of using bossa, buy yourself a real JTAG adapter (Segger
> > JLink, etc.). If you at some point change to a different ARM Cortex-M
> > MCU, same JTAG adapter continues to work with it also (unless you buy
> > some very cheap vendor-specific JTAG).
> 
> That would be the next step. Indeed, without JTAG I don't see how anyone
> programs the Due, because of total absence of debug facilities; and it
> does add considerably to the price (not that I can't afford it, just
> seems a bit much for the hobbyist market). You're talking about
> something like 3 times the cost of an STM32F4 Disco board, which has the
> STLINK interface on-board and a straightforward and free software
> solution for gdb; things stop, ^C, get a traceback from
> last_chance_handler, on to the next problem.

For my hobby projects (SDR) at home I got this one (non-commercial use): 
  https://www.segger.com/j-link-edu.html
Together with the Olimex board :
  https://www.olimex.com/Products/ARM/ST/STM32-H407/open-source-hardware  and
a hobbyist version of the CrossWorks (http://www.rowley.co.uk/arm/) environment works very well. I know, its C but I had to start somewhere :). 
Again this is not Ada but it is worth checking:   http://www.mpeforth.com/xc7.htm#versions and  http://www.forth.com/embedded/swiftx-embedded-systems-14.html


Cheers,
  Darek