hello all,

I've been working with the PIC18 family and sending data over Ethernet to the PC. Now I need a microcontroller with integrated Ethernet. I've looked around and the AT91SAM7 series looks like a good option, so I'm thinking about buying the AT91SAM7S-EK.

Before I buy this kit I just need to know if this is the right kit for me. My project is to read in some parallel data (through I/O) and then send this data over Ethernet (as UDP packets) to a PC with as minimal delay as possible. Is this the right board to do this, are there any other boards/chips that you guys could suggest.

Ofcourse buying the AT91SAM7 chip would mean learning all the complexities of the chip and programming it from scratch. How difficult will it be to get up to speed with the AT91SAM7S-EK, are there good examples provided with the kit? what editors are available to program in?

Any suggestions /feedback would be appreciated,
Thank you .

Hi

I guess you have by now been able to set up your environment since it has been some time since you posted your msg.. However, for the reference and for others searching (and for me, myself, and my ego) I dare posting these links. The first second one more as an reference and the first for the real stuff:

Go grab it (slowly):
http://blog.nutaksas.com/2009/05/installing-gnuarm-arm-toolchain-on.html

This is codesourcerys lite (thumb only, arm7 only) toolchain (never used it ) :
http://embdev.net/topic/129913
http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/release642

Breg
Vidar (Z)