Turbo BDM Lite ColdFire Interface

摘要

In the April and May 2008 issues of Elektor the DigiButler was introduced, which is a simple, low-cost Home Automation Server built around the MCP52231, a ColdFire microcontroller made by Freescale. The two article instalments also mentioned Daniel Malik's Turbo BDM Lite ColdFire interface (TBLCF), a low-cost programming interface that is fully open source. Although we referred to the extensive TBLCF documentation, we didn't have enough time during the preparations of the DigiButler project to fully test this interface, and there wasn't an RoHS compliant replacement for the microcontroller in that circuit. This is now available, however, and may be obtained as a free sample via the Freescale website.