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I have a potential customer that is interested in porting a 6809 application to the 8051. His 6809 code is all assembly. Does anyone know of any tools that can help him do this?
Sorry to sound discouraging here. The 6809 is quite a different animal compared to an 8051. I'm not saying with certainty that you will not find the tool you seek, but usually, one encounters converters between processor architectures that are much more similar to one another than these two are. I personally have never run across a 6809-to-8051 converter.
Sounds a bit unlikely ot me, too. Might it be better to convert to 'C'? If your customer has a 6809 'C' compiler, then you could test your conversion on the existing target - otherwise you'll be converting both the hardware and the software at the same time. Always best to change just one thing at a time, if you can...!