I am using IAR Workbench w/ JLink & have been thinking that Jtrace capability would be real useful. Unfortunately, JTrace is ~ $1300 for the hardware. Is there any open source or 3rd party Jtrace hardware around? I'm using NXP LPC 2300 chips mostly.
Thanks, Tom
In message , tporter writes
Just down load the spec from ARM and do your own hardware. It's that simple. Of course it will cost you a LOT more than 1300 USD to do
You could of course hire some one to do one for you but that will cost a LOT more than 1300 USD
You could as Lauterbach or iSystem for their ARM JTAG-Trace systems but they are a LOT more than 1300 USD.
AFAIK even if there is a published circuit for an ARM Trace system it will cost you more than 1300 USD to make one.
The least expensive answer IS the IAR J-trace.
If you need trace the amount of time it will save you (and Time == money) the IAR J-trace is cost effective.
BTW how do you have "Open Source" hardware? :-) Who in their right mind is going to spend a lot of time and effort doing an ARM-Trace system and make the hardware for less than IAR? They have economy of scale. You will have to make several thousand off to get the manufacturing costs down to a similar price.
So the IAR J-link IS cost effective at 1300 USD.
TIME == MONEY
Work out what it costs your company to run you per hour (usually at least double what they pay you. ) Divide that amount into 1300 and then see how many hours you have spent looking for a cheaper option, how many hours it will take you to do your own. I bet you will find buying the IAR J-trace will be the cheapest option by a long way.
Hi Tom,
the only option to get J-Trace a little cheaper would be from the source:
An Schwob
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