Re: Microcontroller development board

Hello Martin,

I think the most important tool is a GOOD programmer, there are plenty
of parallel port based ones, they are free, they all have different
parallel port pin usage, and I never really got one to work properly,
(must be me). Thats why I suggest the dontronics one, its cheap as
well

The USB programmer for the MSP430 works quite well and it was $99 directly from TI. Considering what's in there I felt this was a bargain.

One word of caution to those who think a USB-parallel converter would work for laptops that only have USB: For programmers they often don't.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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