By I finally got around to playing with the free LPCXpresso boards I was sent by NXP. A nifty little ARM Cortex M0 board with an USB programming and console link, gcc based compiler and Eclipse based IDE. The CPU is a LPC1114 and features: 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 core 32kB
Mac OS X Serial Terminal Programs
I do some embedded software development at home on my Mac, and as others in this situation know, it’s a Windows world out there. It’s fair to say that while there are some tools for embedded developers, there’s not a lot going around by way of free or open source