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As a student being forced to learn the LPC21xx microcontrollers as part of my degree, I have found getting information and help extremely poor.
Everything points you in the direction of the data sheet/ user manual, but the reason Im looking for help else where is because Im not getting what I need from the manual. How backwards is that!
Also when you post a thread on this site no one gets back to you. Does anyone actually run the site? and does anyone actually reply to technical questions that actually may help others at a later time? I think not. I think Ive got a better chance of recieving a reply from this rant!
I think ARM and Keil should be ashamed and take a leaf out of Microchips book, as the help avaialable for the many devices they supply is vast!
Rant over
One more thing - who should support?
Microchip sells processors. So they have an economic incentive to help even students.
Atmel sells processors - same there.
ARM sells processor cores to other companies. So it would be NXP, Atmel, ... that should help people who can't understand _their_ manuals.
Because you can't really claim that you are stuck with an ARM or Keil problem. The NXP21xx may have an ARM core. But it is NXP who have taken an ARM core, and glued on lots of peripherials. And then written a manual documenting their processor. Keil just supplies the compiler. So their documentation and support responsibilities are about the compiler, RTX, etc. Still not any NXP ADC.