I'm new to the ARM family, and I just got my new fangled SAM7A3 eval board... whats it supposed to do? I plug it into the USB and the orange 'Power' light comes on, but nothing else happens. I've moved the mini joystick and pressed the other two buttons, nada. Does it come unprogrammed? Do I need to program it with something?

And that brings me to my next question... I read that SAM-BA won't work. What does that leave me with? Do I have to use the JTAG interface, or can I still use SAM-PROG? I have been hesitant to try anything because I can't seem to find any bin files on the CD, all it includes is an IAR project, which I'm not going to cough up the money to buy since I already own Visual Studios. I'd compile it with that, but I can't seem to find a makefile, so I don't know what needs to be included...

If anyone could point me in the right direction or help me out, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I am also new in this field and working on AT91SAM7A3 Evalution board. For That i am using IAR which is free available on iar.com for 32Kbyte. They also providing sample examples on net. doawnload this and open basic example of LED ON/OFF and download in kit using SAM-IC .