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Hi,
I'm looking at 2 cheap development boards. One has a LPC1768 Cortex-M3 processor, and the other has a LPC2368 TDMI-S processor. I dunno which to get, and maybe could use some suggestions.
I'd like to use open source tools (sorry Keil), and maybe end up running FreeRTOS or something. USB might be fun to play with, if I can get the right software somewhere, and I noticed that the LPC1768 board has a host mode connector that the LPC2368 one doesn't. I'm a bit vague about what I want to do, really.
Any clues as to which core offers the most advantages for a noob experimenter?
Boz.
The LPC17xx chips are not more expensive than the LPC23xx chips. And at least the variants I have looked at have been pin-comptabile. A manufacturer of LPC23xx boards should be able to sell the boards with LPC17xx mounted instead.
The biggest difference may be that the LPC17xx chips don't have the battery-backed RAM. The 2KB of RAM is reduced to a few cells in the RTC.
I recently migrated an application from LPC24xx to LPC17xx. Easy, fast, many peripheral remained the same.