What's New the first 10 years 1997-2006

A new Colour Brochure is available outlining the products we supply.

We have provided a new tool for our Micro-Search 8051 database to allow you to select which criteria to search on and then which chip parameters you want displayed.  see  Self Selection Micro-Search

The Newsletter is out again

A new ColdFire development package for the MCF5213 including debug board and GCC compiler.
Some new evaluation boards for HC908 from P&E, and for ARM and Nexus from iSYSTEM.

New are the Embest range of ARM development tools include JTAG interface, Debugger with IDE that comes with an operational GCC compiler along with a flash programmer and a wide range of ARM Evaluation boards.  All you need to be creating ARM applications "out of the box"

We added a section on tools based on GCC and GDB for embedded development 
     including GCC development packages for Coldfire, PPC Nexus and ARM

Two " quarterly " Newsletters  a year seems to be our limit !

Abatron release versions of their BDM/JTAG interface that will operate with the Accelerated Technology Nucleus debugger and now supports PPC 83xx,  MPC7400/7410/744x/745x, MGT5100, MPC5200

CMX release RTOS and stack products for ColdFire, 9S12X and MAXQ their MicroNnet package now supports new CPUs and new Protocols,  

The Ellisys USB analyser family supports full USB2 480Mbits/sec rate, the Microsoft Class Protocols and a sophisticated Trigger option. And then Ellisys release a Wireless USB analyser  which supports both Certified Wireless and WiMedia’s Ultra wideband USB protocols

New are CAN PCMCIA and LIN interfaces as well as  Labview and CANopen Software, CANDIP and CANDIP/M162 boards allow applications using the CAN bus to be developed on a very small 28 pin DIP format.

The HI-TECH Enterprise edition includes PIC, PIC 18 and dsPIC Compilers

The All-100 is our fastest yet device Programmer with USB2 interface and a range of adapter modules

Our Logic Analysers now have more fast channels and longer buffers

We tell the world all about it with two Newsletters

P&E USB interfaces for PPC and CF as well as a new package for the Nexus PPC 55xx
Abatron now supports PPC 85xx, ARM 11
A new range of USB bus analysers that are highly affordable
CAN232 a serial CAN interface and a more detailed description of PCAN Explorer.

This year we produced two editions of our "Quarterly" Newsletter

We are giving away C compilers for 68HC08 and PIC
Abatron BDM pages have been extended to add support for the XScale and MIPS32/64.
P&E pages have been extended to add new 68HC12, HCS12 HC08 and HCS08 products as well as Cyclone Pro and  Multilink USB,
The All-11P3 which has a USB interface is released
Pocket Digital Storage Oscilloscope  and  Logic Analysers  are now available.
The EBS TCP/IP stack product ranges have been extended with the addition of the following protocols :-  SNTP, SMB, PPPoE, NAT, 802.11
Our PEAK CAN pages have been extended to include a full description of all their products

Complete update for our Tools Directory,  All-11 devices,  Gang-08 devices, iSYSTEM device support
The Jokes page runs from a database so there are new jokes on demand rather than when Chris gets around to doing an update.

Just managed one issue of the "Quarterly" Newsletter
Micro-Search  now contains >650 chips from >30 manufacturers
Also some new reports showing all 8051 chips with either I2C or CAN or SPI interfaces.

Away go the Frames - in come the drop down menus, Our web site is moved to a new service provider
The front page is made much prettier
Micro-Search is now implemented using a server side database with many significant improvements

RomEm low cost USB based ROM emulator