Found: The perfect dev board

Also, do you guys think its going to be hard to get development papers for this? Where would I even get them?

Generally, for dev boards you'll need to get the individual component data sheets from their respective manufacturers. Just hitting google with the part number and filetype:pdf is often sufficient, though.

Not got that board, but have had other stuff from Olimex - I'm sure it is fine - buy it!

Depending on what you are planning to do, you might also want to consider an FPGA development board. This would allow you to experiment with FPGA-based processors, like the Xilinx Microblaze or Altera Nios II. As a software person, I find it quite enjoyable and rewarding to create a microprocessor-based system and then write the software for it. With just a bit of hardware and VHDL knowledge, I've been able to do a couple of simple FPGA projects working only with the board designer (no VHDL engineer needed). The tools are that good.

Looks a nice little board, but is there a price for it?

pete

Olimex's price list is at:

which says US$ 115.95

(plus of course whatever it costs to import it. :-))

Simon.

It had me all the way up to "Atmel".