October 16, 2002 - SofTec Microsystems unveils its inDART-HC08 Series of In-Circuit Debuggers/ISP Programmers, a new family of low-cost development tools for the Motorola HC08 Flash Family.
The inDART-HC08 Series is based on an universal emulator/programmer unit and a number of device-specific evaluation boards.
inDART-HC08 takes advantage of Metrowerks' CodeWarrior HC08 Integrated Development Environment and the ISP (In-System Programming) feature to program the FLASH memory of the HC08 family of microcontrollers. Together with CodeWarrior HC08, inDART-HC08 provides you with everything you need to download (program), in-circuit emulate and debug user code. Full-speed program execution allows you to perform real-time hardware and software testing. inDART-HC08 is connected to the host PC through a USB port, while the 16-pin connector of the product fits into the target's standard MON08 connector. On Design Kit packages, a full-featured experiment board for a specific HC08 microcontroller is also included.
inDART-HC08 offers you the following benefits:
- Real-time code execution and in-circuit debugging without probes--works with all packages (MON08-compatible ISP connector);
- Built-in FLASH programmer (DataBlaze programming utility);
- 2.2 to 5.0 V devices supported;
- Jumperless hardware mode setting;
- Automatic VTST voltage generation;
- Automatic target baud rate detection;
- USB connection to the PC;
- Metrowerks' CodeWarrior IDE (the same user interface of all Motorola tools), with editor, assembler, C compiler and debugger.
The tools are available at the price of $249 (emulator/programmer unit alone) and $299 (emulator/programmer unit plus a device-specific evaluation board). Each evaluation board features a MON08 connector, various I/O demo controls, a prototyping area and a ZIF socket for easy device insertion/extraction.
