Re: Best microcontroller with Linux development tools

Bob11 schrieb:
Does anyone have any experience, or know of any vendors, of small
microcontroller development tools than run natively on Linux? I'm looking
at processors in the 8051/AVR/Z8 etc class. I'm not looking for embedded
[...]

There are native delevopment tools for 8051 derivatives available:

SDCC: http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ - a complete C compiler
ASEM-51: http://plit.de/asem-51/ - a good 8051 macro assembler

However you might notice that you will have no way to program your
particular chip. It depends on the devcie you use.
If your target board allows upload via RS232 of some kind, you can use
any terminal program (or even shell scripting).

I personally use a development board which runs with Tasking Monitor -
and you can communicate with that via RS232, thus uploading your
firmware to SRAM.

Devices which allow programming their FLASH via UART and RS232, should
do as well. A project of mine used a T89C51CC02 controller by ATmel and
I could upload my Firmware using ATmel's UART bootloader software.

HTH,
Matthias
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