S12X.COM
About S12X.COM

This site is designed to be a resource for Freescale (Motorola) users of the popular HCS12 and HCS12X line of microcontrollers. It was created on June 17th of 2005 to archive useful information and tools relating to these micros. The 68HC11 and 68HC12 are popular and well documented micros with many free tools available for them across the net. It seems as though up until lately good free tools were still unavailable for the HCS12 and HCS12X users.

I (Jared0x90) am presently a moderator at freegeeks.net in the HCS12(X) sections as well as the bar. Should anyone have questions regarding HC(S)12(X) micros I highly recommend creating an account at the freegeeks site and posting all questions there. I don't have any intentions of creating a discussion board here as the freegeeks site is already a well thought out portal with over a thousand users at present.

I have a number of reasons for creating this site however. I have a pretty well endowed server as compared to what most sites are run on these days. I have a good deal of space and bandwidth to host almost any HCS12(X) tools or projects people would like to share as well as a CPU that only plugs along serving up my own sites. Should anyone wish to have a tool or tutorial hosted by me that is focused on these micros or if they even would like to create a free website here that is free of all the ad garbage other free sites would love you to display for them I would not mind that at all assuming it is at least somewhat on topic. If you are interested feel free to contact me. I also enjoy development of software and hardware. I have made donations to SourceForge and a few open source projects I have really gotten some good use out of to show my support. If I can help a project move along by providing FTP space to move files or web space to share info then I really have no gripe doing so or reason not to.

Fortunately Metrowerks has recently released a free 32K C compiler that also allows an unlimited amount of ASM. This is definately a wonderful tool for the community but unfortunately for folks who would like to develop in ASM this is not what I would call a hard core assembler. At first glance it is quite confusing and it does not presently allow for all popular addressing modes. One of the things I hope can grow out of this site is a good assembler for the HCS12(X) micros. As it happens tonight I have stumbled across what looks to be a great assembler written in Perl by one of the freegeeks members.