Re: Arduino Due vs Mac

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

darek <darek.maksimiuk@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

I'm looking at the Segger EDU version and the Olimex connector (a tenth
the cost of the Segger version!)