mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) (07/25/90)
I'll soon be writing some code for a new medical instrument, containing
an embedded HD647180X processor (Hitachi's enhanced version of their own
HD64180 products, which in turn run essentially the Z80 instruction set,
from what I've heard). I'll need a good C cross-development system that
runs under MS-DOS. Hitachi's product sheet lists three vendors who have
one available:
American Automation
Microtech Research
Decmation/Z-World
Does anyone who has experience with some or all of these have anything
to say (good, bad, whatever) about them? There's quite a cost spread
between the least and most expensive. (Z-World, curiously, offers both
the cheapest (their old product) and the costliest (their new one, which
does indeed look quite spiffy).) Are there any others, not listed on the
Hitachi product sheet, that I should be aware of?
Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
Mark Bartelt INTERNET: mark@sickkids.toronto.edu
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto mark@sickkids.utoronto.ca
416/598-6442 UUCP: {utzoo,decvax}!sickkids!markbkoball@cup.portal.com (Bruce R Koball) (07/28/90)
I recently used the Microtech Z80/HD64180 C cross compiler for an embedded control project and found it quite adequate. The one serious bug I found (it barfed on arrays of structures with mixed int and float data types) was quickly dealt with by their cust. service dept. (they got me a work-around). For lack of a source level debugger (arrggh!) I had to examine the compiler output at the assembly level numerous times (no fault of Microtech) and found that it produced reasonably tight, efficient code. Bruce Koball Motion West 2210 Sixth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 415-540-7503 bkoball@cup.portal.com