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by NavinF 878 days ago
> I have to still spend nearly a thousand dollars or two on embedded systems development equipment

wat

> JTAGs, ICEs, ROM flashers, UART-based bootloading solutions

Dude, all the popular chips these days are ARM MCUs with SWD. They can be programmed with a $3 ST-Link V2. The most you'd spend on the stuff you listed is $75 for a Black Magic Probe, but of course you can build your own for 1/10th the price.

$0.03 MCUs are the exception to the rule since they use proprietary protocols and OTP memory, but their programmers are still in the $100 range