I am looking for a development board for controlling lab instruments and doing some experiments. I expect to use simple interfaces to sensors and to use digital control and also to sometimes interface with a PC for recording data. Getting up and running quickly is important, as is having a flexible system.
I spent a year doing professional firmware on an H8 development board but it was six years ago and I don't remember what I used.
What I think I want is a development board/micro controller with: A few timers, A few channels of ADC (speed not too important-so one ADC should do. I could live with an external multiplexor) Access to the micro's pins. Either via headers or with some space for the Flash memory. 32K should be plenty A few K of RAM. An on board LCD display (32 charecters should be over kill and could live with less). I Could add this but it would be much faster if the eval board came with one. C compilier Debugger USB port would be nice Price