Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a Starter Kit for its latest 16-bit SuperFlash microcontroller, featuring 256Kbytes of Silicon Storage Technologies’ SuperFlash memory. The Starter Kit platform combines the TMP91FY42 microcontroller and associated hardware development board with an integrated development environment (IDE). The kit provides software examples, demonstration programs, application notes and all of the documentation needed for ‘out-of-the-box’ development. The Starter Kit’s development board is populated with a host of commonly used components and peripherals, including an LCD display, USB and RS232 interfaces, a USB to RS232 converter chip and a filtered loudspeaker output for speech IP and other sound functions.

The TOPAS91FY42 IDE software includes ROM monitor, simulator and project manager functionality as well as a C compiler and assembler and linker capabilities. The ROM monitor offers a comprehensive suite of debug and editing functions. The Kit offers software examples and application notes for functions such as key scanning, speech software, universal motor control, display applications and flash memory programming, as well as a third party flash programming tool.