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From: strohm@mksol.dseg.ti.com (john r strohm)
Subject: Re: 8031 C-crosscompiler
Message-ID: <1993Sep28.212802.19069@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
Keywords: 8031, microcontroller, C, crosscompiler
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
References: <28a2m3$f18@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 21:28:02 GMT
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In article <28a2m3$f18@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> mdtrev@athena.mit.edu (Matthew D Trevithick) writes:
>I am the graduate teaching assistant of a course called Designing Smart
>Machines at M.I.T.  The enrollment consists primarily of Mechanical Engineers
>who want an introductory exposure to embedded microcontroller system design.
>We are using the Intel 8031 for the laboratory assignments.  
>
>Currently, the students are using PCs to write assembly language programs to
>run on the 8031.  I would like to buy a C Cross Compiler for the lab, so that
>the students can move easily onto more interesting/complex control problems.
>I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good, easy-to-learn, easy-to-use C 
>Cross Compiler that would run on PCs.  I have been told that many of such
>packages exist, but can't find a good one to buy.  I'm looking to spend
>between $300 and $1,000.

Look in _Computer Applications Journal_ magazine, also in the various E.E.
magazines.  Or, if you are not horribly committed to the 8031, you could
talk to Fred Martin over in the E.E. department about the work they have been
doing with 68HC11 and course 6.270.

(Why does it not surprise me that the M.E. dept. has no idea what the E.E.
department is doing, especially in an area where they could cross-fertilize
so easily?)
