# LPC1343 Code Base
This software library is based on the freely available LPC1343 Reference
-Design available at www.microBuilder.eu. It's licensed under the BSD
-license (see license.txt for details).
+Design available at http://www.microBuilder.eu. Unless otherwise stated,
+all files are licensed under the BSD license (see license.txt for details).
## Downloads
-The latest version of the software is always available at the following url:
+The latest version of the software is always available on github at:
-http://www.microbuilder.eu/Projects/LPC1343ReferenceDesign/LPC1343CodeBase.aspx
+https://github.com/microbuilder/LPC1343CodeBase
+
+## Development Status
+
+While there are almost certainly bugs and chunks of decidedly
+mediocre code in the library, after two years or so of fairly
+steady development effort, the core code should be fairly
+reliable. Some drivers in the /drivers folder are incomplete,
+and may have been abandoned once the basic features were working
+(setting pixels on a display, etc.), but they should serve as
+a good starting point for a wide variety of peripherals.
+
+## How Can Someone Support This Project
+
+A lot of the recent development in this library was done
+thanks to the financial support of Adafruit Industries (paying
+me a salary to keep providing this stuff). If you find this library
+useful, please consider ordering something from the people that
+make this financially possible: http://www.adafruit.com
+
+## Toolchains
+
+The entire LPC1343 Code Base is based around GCC, and can be built
+from the command-line using only free tools like the Yagarto
+distribution for Windows or the Mac, etc.
+
+Nonetheless, it's often more productive to develop in an IDE with a
+full set of debugging tools at your disposal, and the code base also
+includes project files for Rowley Associate's Crossworks for ARM, as
+well as project files for the free and open source CodeLite, which can
+be used in combination with a Segger J-Link for ARM and GDB Server.
+
+Project files for the two IDEs are stored in the /build folder, and
+project files for the free LPCXpresso IDE are stored in root (see
+http://www.microbuilder.eu/Projects/LPC1343ReferenceDesign/DebuggingWithLPCXpresso.aspx
+for more information on using LPCXpresso).
## Documentation
-Online documentation is available at the following URLs
+Online documentation is available at the following URLs, though the
+current documentation reflects and earlier version of the library, and some
+inconsistencies are present since parts of the library have been
+reorganized working towards a 1.0.0 release. The graphics library in
+particular has been reorganized quite a bit.
General API Documentation:
http://www.microbuilder.eu/Projects/LPC1343ReferenceDesign/CodeBaseDocumentation.aspx
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