LPC-P2148
Last week I got my LPC-P2148 ARM7 micro-controller. It’s a pretty nice development board with two serial ports, usb device controller, sd/mmc card slot, AD and DA converters and some other useful stuff.
At the start it was very hard to get it work for me. I’m a total newbie on arm controllers. In school we always had intel processors and programmed them with windows. But now I wanted to program it with Mac OS X so I needed an extra USB/Serial/JTAG adapter. In the starer kit I got an OpenOCD-USB adapter which is totally free under the GPL terms and works perfectly with Mac OS X.
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To get that setup to work under Mac OS X (10.5.6) you need the following software parts:
- OpenOCD
- ARM-ELF-GCC (Download the compiler and follow the instructions under “Installation”)
- Of corse you need the apple developer tools installed for make and some other useful tools
Now how to get these things set up:
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