I want to learn about 32bit processor, because until now I just use 8/16 bit microcontrollers. is there any company offering a free dev kit for students? can some one who has experience give me a link?
Hi,
you can apply for butterfly kit in circuitcellar AVR contest 2006 (**broken link removed**). 1st phase of distribution is finished and second phase may start anytime.
So, if you are interested then wait and have an eye on the kit request page (**broken link removed** ). Because it will be announced anytime and the kits will be allocated within very short time.
Well,
asking for an ARM development kit and getting offered an 8-bit AVR kit does not really cut, does it? THere was a similar contest from Circuitcellar for the Philips ARM LPC2138 about half a year ago, but that is past time and long gone.
Closest to free is cheapest available.
Two things come to mind: www.embeddedartists.com with very nice inexpensive boards. Last year they had a christmas special for 9.99 Euro, still they have boards starting at 29 Euro, that cme with nice examples and as far as I know the GNU tools
**broken link removed**
The other well know provider of ARM boards would be Olimex.
It is better to save a little money and buy one. It is not expensive to get dev boards witk many peripherals, for less than 100 bucks. Or you can make your own, with no guarantee it will work.
ATMEL is giving there Butterfly AVR development board FREE and I got one from them. This is the first time in my life I getting development board FREE. If you want to work with AVR then request ATMEL for Butterfly board.