I am not primarily after getting ready code just to burn the microcontroller with. I am more into evaluating some design ideas or algorithms or the like with this kind of smart flowchart program. It is essentially to think as designing a microcontroller program with LEGO, you can move around different symbols of the flowchart and se what-if. And all results calculated by a computer rather than by man so no human errors are involved. When you end up with a flowchart with some higher type of code (or block code) you just translate what there might be into C or assembly language. It's the thought-of-trial-and-error playing with a flowchart that I am after, if I can express my desire clear enough.
PICAXE I didn't know of before. Is it good?...and no less important - is it possible to evaluate? Primarily I am more interested in ATTiny, but PIC is also of interest.
Regarding the link for 8051 - its a CPU that is more capable and larger than the small microcontrollers that I am most interest in. Do you think that the 8051-link is worth putting a considerable amount of time trying? I have as a goal to invest quite some time with only a few suitable programs that indeed look promising for my purpose so as test them to their limits. If successful, any of them will be my worktools and the seller of these programs will surely be satisfied (as my future boss). But as said before - Statemate is the one that I really want to evaluate at the moment. Having been reading what there is to read about it, but nonetheless - still no way that I have found to evaluate it. It would do for my part with an older version too (I-Logix Statemate 4.1 for example), which I will have to test on an older computer, but anyway...where to get Statemate for evaluation??? Also interested in other peoples views of its purposefulness for my intended usage
/Pim