development board/kit for coldfire

[HarrySun]

hello,

I have been using codewarrior  and 8-bit freescale controller for a while(C and assembly), now I am interested in coldfire Mcu and want to learn this 32 bit series,anyone could please let me know which development board or kit or demo board is good for start?

thanks very much

Harry

[mccPaul]

Hi

I have used the FreeScale m5282lite and the m52235evb as well as Netburner (http://www.netburner.com/) and EMAC SOM-5282 (http://www.emacinc.com/som/som5282em.htm).

If you don't need an external bus with SDRAM and FLASH, then the M52235EVB is very nice as it has a built in USB BDM. You can try it out with the FreeScale NicheLite stack or the uTasker stack (http://www.utasker.com/). If you want to use uCLinux then one of the 5282 boards would probably be better.

The M52235EVB can be used with a lite version of CodeWarrior or there is a very good CodeSourcery GNU toolchain (www.codesourcery.com). CodeSourcery supply an Eclipse-based IDE, or you can set your own up by following this tutorial on my website (http://www.cambridgeimaging.co.uk/wp_open-source-coldfire-ide.php).

Cheers,

Paul.