I'm just now evaluating the latest Keil c51 tool. In the past, I've used c compilers for other embedded platforms. Many of these other platforms not only provided a good compiler, but provided great code "examples" and libraries. For instance, a already coded character LCD "library". So far with the evaluation of Keil, I've noticed rather minimal library support. And the examples that I looked at didn't look like they would be very helpful to me. I've got a couple questions: 1) Does a purchased version contain additional libraries that the evaluation version does not? Any extra stuff that would speed up the process of coding basic interface libraries common to most embedded systems (i2c, lcd, keypad, etc)? 2) How is the documentation on the compiler\tools? Thorough and easy to get up to speed on? Thanks John Yemos
Although I am kind of surprised not to see a standard hitachi 2 or 4 line LCD C library\example being that it's 'the standard'. One library\example could handle both 4 or 8 bit modes for 1, 2, or 4 line displays. From a user perspective, it would sure save some development time. John