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From: mark@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Mark Hosang Yim)
Subject: Re: 6811 - Downloading a monitor program
Message-ID: <1993Jan20.031800.9646@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
Summary: Ideal is good but not for downloading a monitor
Keywords: 6811 pcbug IDEAL
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Organization: Robotics Lab. Stanford University
References: <C12BKx.670.1@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 03:18:00 GMT
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In article <C12BKx.670.1@cs.cmu.edu> lalit+@CS.CMU.EDU (Lalitesh Katragadda) writes:
>
>In <1993Jan15.180921.23982@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> mark@killdeer.stanford.edu
>writes
>
>>You can use the special bootstrap mode (moda low, modb low) download a
>>tiny 256 byte program (for E2 and A8 version) that will download or
>>communicate with your host.  This is what PCbug does. PCbug runs on an IBM
>>PC, does all the things BUFFALO does and more.  Very nice program.
>>I'm pretty sure PCbug can be had from motorola's bboard.
>
> I haven't used PCbug myself, but I have used IDEAL a package coincidentally
>written by Ed Carryer from Stanford and i found it suffeciently useful and
>bugfree to recommend it to anyone seriously doing 68HC11 programming. 
>The last i knew (June) he was selling it for around $45. It does all 
...
>Ed or anyone in the course Smart product design is reading this group, maybe (s)he'll 
>respond)

Actually I'm involved in the ME218 Smart product design group.

IDEAL is very nice, and I too recommend it for anyone doing 68HC11 development.
BUT, it assumes that a monitor program is on the 6811.  It cannot download
a monitor program as PCbug does through the special bootstrap mode, which
is the only way I can think of to download a monitor program without a
monitor program (bootstrap).
Although IDEAL may have this function later (according to Ed).

btw, if anyone is interested you can get IDEAL from:

Creative applications Engineering
P.O. box 9524
Stanford, CA 94309
bbs number 415-494-8463
compuserve (74156,1207),
BIX (ecarryer) 

cost is $69.95

>cheers,
>lalit

mark
mark@killdeer.stanford.edu



