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What are popular new uC development kits?

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Bradley1234

Jan 1, 1970
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Why do I ask? Because Ive been away from microcontrollers for a few years
and just dont know what is current or popular these days.

My favorite architecture is the MCS-51

But to get up to speed, a person needs SW development tools, some hardware
to program the uC, and a proto board.

Are there kits that will do some schematic capture and simulation around the
uC, so that a person could quickly throw a design out, test it, then get
circuit boards made?

Right now Ive got limited design tools, one from Intel thats machine code
level, a Keil C compiler eval CD, but must use wire wrap to build a proto
system, connect a logic analyzer, fill an eprom with machine code, and see
what happens. There has to be a better way.
 
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Ziggy

Jan 1, 1970
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Bradley1234 said:
Why do I ask? Because Ive been away from microcontrollers for a few years
and just dont know what is current or popular these days.

My favorite architecture is the MCS-51

But to get up to speed, a person needs SW development tools, some hardware
to program the uC, and a proto board.

Are there kits that will do some schematic capture and simulation around the
uC, so that a person could quickly throw a design out, test it, then get
circuit boards made?

Right now Ive got limited design tools, one from Intel thats machine code
level, a Keil C compiler eval CD, but must use wire wrap to build a proto
system, connect a logic analyzer, fill an eprom with machine code, and see
what happens. There has to be a better way.
Might check out the free tools from xilinx... while they make FPGA's
they do have schematic capture/synthesis in their tool set.

Could easily get an IPcore of a 51 and stick it in the FPGA.. Then add
anything else on top..
 
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Bradley1234

Jan 1, 1970
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Thanks, I obtained a Xilinx design kit, will install it today or tomorrow
and see how it works
 
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