Microcontroller kit

Zilog has their eZ8 eval board that comes with a C compiler for $50(US). I don't know how much that will be from Germany though. Take a look at the kit at

Microchip Technology has several demo boards. I bought the PICDEM-2 for around $90(US). No C compiler so code must be written in assembly language. This board has 4 LEDs, some switches, a temperature sensor (I2C), an EEPROM(I2C), a pot (for A/D), and a buzzer. You can download their MPLAB development software from their website. It includes a simulator so you don't actually need real hardware (but I like seeing LEDs light up).

Atmel has their STK500 board ($90?) . This comes with switches and LEDs and a Flash RAM. I haven't played with this yet. You can download their development software from their web site also. I don't remember if it comes with a C compiler.

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You can use the free WinAVR compiler. See

I can definitely recommend this board along with WinAVR and AVR Studio

Regards, Richard.

"Sreeram" wrote in news:bu8plg$q8u$ snipped-for-privacy@ns2.fe.internet.bosch.com:

This is a good dev kit for ad-hoc proto work (I'm very happy with mine), but maybe not so good of a demo kit. You can use it with many different Atmel MCUs, but it's missing some common peripherals (like an LCD). OTOH, Atmel has recently released a small (cheap, ~USD$30) eval board (AVR Butterfly) with an LCD:

And don't forget about the fanatics at

Since you live in Germany, I recommend you to visit

Markus

The STK502 addonboard supports the ATmega169 with segmented LCD (100 segments)

try ARM board 32 bits

Kolja

In article , Sreeram writes

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