Hi cbarn24050
Well, gee, I went to the cc5x site today and it still showed
it to be free to me? Try the following link:
you mentioned:
"Hi Rich, I just looked at their site, seems you meant "internet free" ie. not free."
What part of their statement:
"A FREE edition of CC5X is available."
isn't clear?
As they have pointed out:
"Restrictions: The free edition can be used to generate code
for all prototype and non-commercial systems without
restrictions. Permission is given to use the generated code
in ONE commercial system. Permission is required to
distribute the FREE edition. Making any changes to the
compiler is strongly prohibited."
That aside-
The thing I do like about the cc5x is that although in
this version, you are limited to 1k object modules, at
least you can link the object modules together to get
code greater than 1K. I haven't seen that in any of
the other free c compilers.
The documentation is pretty darned good and the code
loaded up without a hitch.
I haven't used my one free commerial application for the
compiler, but the prototypes that I've done with them
have worked pretty well. The instructions for multiple
object files are kind of sketchy and required some
fiddling and farting about to get them linking correctly.
Other than that, it's been pretty good. I might even
have to "BUY" one (gulp) if I use up my one free
commerical app.
The header files for many of the pics are included and
it wouldn't take too much to generate a header for a new
pic. However, the pics that I have used 16f648a, 16f877a,
12f675 and 10f200 seem to be on there, so I haven't had
to go through that exercise. There were even some of
the 18F parts in the header files.
I am not affiliated with the folks of cc5x other than
being a user of their software.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Rich S.