Crossware has been careful to take into account the huge legacy of 8051 based designs with its latest starter kit for Philips LPC210X ARM-based microcontrollers. A notable feature of the kit is that ...

[Andrew] picked up a handful of these big STC 8051 chips for a song and dance. The problem he has with them is the clunky VB6 programming software that only wants to run on a Windows box. He buckle… ...