Lpc2000

Hi folks,

I have a project coming up for which I need some CAN ports and a
reasonable amount of power (in MIPS, not in mA!). The LPC2294 looks
perfect from what I can see, but I've never used ARM devices before
and would very much appreciate a little input. 

It looks to me like the Ashling LPC2000 dev board would  be good for
getting me familiar with ARM, and the Crossworks compiler runs under
Linux which is what I want. Does anyone have any experience with
Ashling in general? Are they good products? Would Crosswork's kit work
with it? 

My experince includes 68k, Infineon (X)C166, Fujitsu 16 bit devices
and lots of eight bit stuff, so I have a good amount of experice
including a large amout of 16 and some 32 bit micros. A few of the
micros I've worked with have JTAG interfaces and I like the fact that
these Phillips devices have them too.  Are the ARM devices reasonably
easy to get to grips with for someone with the above experience? 

Finally, I would need to hang a couple of mega bytes of RAM on the
external address and data bus, how do ARM devices with internal RAM
cope with that? It might seem like a daft question, but, for example,
the Infineon XC16x devcies with internal flash aren't so great for
hanging stuff off the external bus because of memory segmentation. 

Many thanks,

Rob