Luminary Micro, a fabless semiconductor company that designs ARM Cortex-M3 processor-based microcontrollers, announces the availability of its Stellaris LM3S811 Evaluation Kit paired with the IAR Embedded Workbench KickStart Edition development tools. The IAR Embedded Workbench is a set of essential build and debug tools for embedded projects using both C and C++. The KickStart Edition allows projects of up to 32KB code size.
The kit features:
50 MHz Stellaris LM3S811 ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller
96x16 pixel OLED display
User-programmable push button and LED
Convenient reset push button and power indicator LED
Thumbwheel potentiometer input to the on-chip ADC
Serial in-circuit debug interface over USB
Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library, which provides a convenient, no-hassle method of initializing, programming, and controlling peripherals on Stellaris microcontrollers
The KickStart Edition of the IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM supporting up to 32KB code size
Port and example application using FreeRTOS.org small footprint real time operating system
Stellaris CD packed with datasheets, schematics, applications notes, and programming examples
In addition, the IAR KickStart Edition Evaluation Kit also supports demonstration applications available for download and trial use.
Demonstrations include:
FreeRTOS.org from FreeRTOS.org uC/OS-II from from Micrium
CMX-RTX from CMX, Inc.
EmbOS RTOS from SEGGER Microcontroller Systeme GmbH
The board is powered over USB (cable included) and contains silk-screened through-hole-mount pin headers that can be user populated with pin stake headers for use in hardware prototyping. Utilizing a standard 20-pin ARM JTAG debug cable (also included), the Stellaris LM3S811 Evaluation Kit can be used as a serial in-circuit emulator for the user's application-specific target board. The Stellaris LM3S811 Evaluation Kit with the KickStart Edition of IAR Embedded Workbench, is available at a resale price of $49.
