Hello group,
This is more or less a follow-up to the thread about freebies and cheap development environments. This has already been announced in this group, but I'm not sure if it has been noticed.
To launch their 16-bit ZNEO product, Zilog is offering through Mouser a special "contest kit" for the wallet-bleeding sum of 50$. Considering it includes a full development environment with C compiler, an USB debugging probe and other gizmos, that's a very sweet deal for developpers (especially beginners) on a budget.
And if you feel inclined to work quickly, well you might be able to earn a bit of cash through the aforementionned contest and pay off the fifth mortgage you had to take to buy the dev kit. :)
I'm also working on tracing back the roots of the ZNEO core to the z8000 and z80000 from the available documentation, but that will take an other while before being completed.
Good coding everyone! Regards, D.
PS: What a shameless plug. Zilog, I really hope you took notice of that and I'll be soon finding some parcels on my doorstep! :D