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After seeing the 2010 DefCon Ninja Badge, I started investigating the
Freescale MC13224V. I come from a Microchip PIC background, but don't
really care for their ZigBee offerings. The Freescale CPU with
everything on-board is very attractive.<br>
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I just subscribed and looked through the archives of this mailing list,
but haven't found an answer to my question: If I get a RedBee EconoTAG
and develop something, what then? What is required to program my
firmware onto a blank chip? I'm so used to the PIC 5-pin programming
interface and needing a programmer (Warp-13, PicKit3) to load
firmware. The Freescale website and datasheets aren't that clear on
what is required to download firmware. The EconoTAG description says: "<span
style="font-size: medium;">On board ROM bootloader for flashing --- no
other programming hardware is necessary." Sounds to me like the CPU
populated on that board has a bootloader, but chips from the factory
won't. Is that correct?<br>
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Thanks for your time,<br>
Barry<br>
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