Hello again!
You may noticed that I made another topic and it resulted on me choosing the ARM family. So far so good.
I installed the GnuARM and put it to work with CodeBlocks, and tested to compile a sample source I found over the net, and it worked and generated the .hex! Its for a ARM7 lpc210x chip.
Now, I would like to know if someone already used any good simulation tool to emulate the ARM chip, I would like to play with ARM in theory first, than go to a real circuit :)
Does anyone know any good tutorial to start? (C/C++ language)
Thank you again!
If you are careful, you can handle most problems with the simulator.
Use a serial port and monitor commands or trace printouts together with gcc for writing large programs.
Use the evaluation version of the simulator to help solve module-related problems - how to handle a serial port or an SPI device or similar. The kind of problems where a printout takes too long time, or where your application hangs.