Choice Of Arm Development Board
srinivasan2323 says... I am considering to start a new hobby, being digital electronics Now, I have been advised to start with a microcontroller and then figure out my own projects from then on, starting with simple blinking lights. It seems like good advise, but which platform is harder.
I have done some research, and it seems like the most popular for beginniners is the PIC series, but the development tools available (if you do not want to code only in ASM in MPLAB) seem to be limited. ARM7 on the other hand, has the GCC toolchain, as well as all the IDE features of MPLAB available for free. Also the ARM platform seems like a more "future-proof" (if such a thing exisists) since the later versions (ARM9) are used in (it seems to me) many commercial products (e.g. handheld consoles).
If I am wrong in any of these reasons for my choice of ARM7 please correct me, I am not (yet) religous about my platform .
Now I am wondering what would be a good beginners development board, and if it was possible to expand it later it would be great. As I said the first things I want to do are the simple beginner's programs, such as blinking lights but later on I would be very interested in driving text displays (I hardly think an ARM7 has the power for graphics). If you have any links to good sites with projects for ARM7 these are also very welcome. I would prefer is the development board is not too pricey (say max 100$) since I will also have to invest in a JTAG.
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