Hitex has released a starter kit for the Philips LPC2138 microcontroller. The LPC2138 microcontroller includes an 32-bit ARM7 processor with additional on-chip Flash and SRAM as well as a variety of peripherals for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion and for RS232, I2C or SPI interfacing.

The tool box contains all the necessary hardware and software components for a quick setup and project start. Besides a development board with LPC2138 controller the kit contains the Tantino JTAG debugger and the complete HiTOP development environment with examples, GNU compiler, ARM simulator and the unit test tool Tessy with a maximum code size of 16 KByte. To meet further design challenges the unlimited software including update and support can be obtained through a registration process.