Uv3 Parallel Port 0 crossbar display disagrees with the Silabs data sheet Rev 1.0.7 for the 48-pin package. With UART0 enabled, Uv3 shows SDA and SCL mapped to PO.0 and P0.1 respectively. With UART0 enabled, the doc Fig 17.3 shows SDA and SCL mapped to P0.0 and P0.3 respectively, with Tx and Rx at P0.1 and P0.2 respectively. Who you gonna believe? (The way my system is behaving right now, I don't believe either one!)
Remember that this is a end-user forum. Contact the Keil support directly if you find bugs or have support requests.
If I'm not an end user, who is? The people who buy and use our products? They wouldn't know an MCU or a development system if it walked up and hit them up side of the head.
Before posting to any forum, one should always check out whether it is the appropriate place for one's question or comment.
See: http://www.keil.com/forum/
In particular, see the 1st bullet point in the Notes:
"Keil support personnel do not monitor this forum and are not guaranteed to reply to your queries."
So this is not the place to raise bug reports or support requests to Keil.
Being an "end-user" forum means it is for discussion between end-users of Keil products
Right. We're all end users, and I'm bringing up something I observed related to my use of Uv3 to debug a system using a C8051F363. If anyone on this forum has seen something related to this discrepancy I have mentioned, they might have discovered something with the chip or Uv3 or both that could help me to a solution. That's what I'm looking for.
Yes, you are an end user. So am I. And I am happy that you informed other users about a potential problem.
I just wanted you to realize that if you were in a hurry to get help, you should consider the official Keil support channels.
Keil would probably also have a contact name at the chip manufacturer where they can forward this kind of questions, since it is important for the chip manufacturer that there exists well-working tools.
Thanks for your courteous reply.
My problem with Keil support is that every time I call them they want $700 before they will talk to me. That's because I don't call as often as once a year, and my maintenance contract is always expired when I need help.
I wish they would simply charge by the minute for support. I don't feel right hitting up my boss for $700 every time I run into a little problem. We could see $10/minute for support calls, but instead we just take more time on the project and find workarounds.
Which probably ends up costing as much as the $700 maintenance...!
The whole point of a maintenance contract is, of course, so that the help will be there when you need it.
The idea of "pay-as-you-go" support is an interesting one, though...
I wonder if some of that maint fee might go to the hosting of this FREE forum ;-) Bradford
they want $700 before they will talk to me.
Don't talk, then. When I sometimes contact Keil support they are always kind, professional, helpful and free.
I meant: using email messages seems to be much cheaper!
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