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Hi, the C167 was recently made by Infineon but now ST makes the chip. You can also use the C168 of ST10, they should be compatible. C compilers are available from KEIL, TASKING which will cost around

5000USD. Except of the expensive compilers, debugging is a sore spot of this controller family. I would not use it in a new design, if I had the choice. Because it has no debug interface you have to use sw-emulators or costly hardware emulators.

I guess ST10C168 will run for several years, because it is (was) a common used uc. You can find documentation on the website of manufactors. Please let me know which developmentenviroment you use.

hth, Wolgang Kopp

Thanks For the reply. The problem is I dont have a choice and I have the design and an application based on this microcontroller. Also I have Rigel Software to program this uC. The place where I work want me to improve this design and seems like that will be a better option than changing to a different uC now. However Infineons website still show C167 and they have something called DAvE to initialise the C167.

I guess what I am looking for is may be a book where there is more information on use of this uC. Thanks

Hi anonymous,

thats what we do also- we have to live with the design and work with it. I just don't recommend the uc for a new design. But first thing you need is a development enviroment, if you aren't stuck to an existing one.

regards, Wolfgang

Pardon my ignorance but what do you mean by development environment? Do you mean the software used to develop the code or the development board used to develop the application or both? Thanks

Hello,

I suggest that you talk to Hitex - they sell the Keil C compiler for C167 and related processors and a range of hardware emulators.

It's a while since I used a 167 but it's actually a pretty good processor. The latest Infineon parts in the family are the XC series which have on chip debug and go a lot faster but are fairly comaptible. If you can't switch to one of these the serial port debug support in the Keil tools is quite good and will even work with a software emulated serial port so that you don't use up a real one.

I have found that the support from ST is a bit variable and their 167 variants have diverged completely from the Infineon parts (initially ST licensed the core from Inf).

Hitex have some tutorial stuff about the 167 which is very helpful if you start from nothing.

MK

Hi, sorry, I did not get it: Rigel Sw is your development enviroment. I had a short look their HP. It includes a c-compiler and a sw-monitor for a fair price. Any comments about it?

cheers, Wolfgang

Hi, the 167 is a good candidate to be used in vehicles (cars) because some flavors of them have CAN modules included. White papers should be available at Infineons homepage.

Development boards:

Flashing the code to the controller might cause some troubles, by using RTOS, application programming in C is quite straight forward.

About books you're right, they're in German (which is good for me :-) So far I couldn't find anything in English (@Amazon), but there are some papers available on the web.

HTH Werner

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