William Wong
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ED Online ID #15304 |
April 5, 2007
The Stellaris LM3S811 ( Luminary Micro Delivers Low Cost Kit To Match $1 ARM-based Microcontroller, ED Online ID #14027) is Luminary Micro’s midrange ARM Cortex microcontroller. I’ll have more on Luminary Micro’s ESC chip announcements later but right now I wanted to talk about IAR’s KickStart Edition for this chip. It works with Luminary Micro’s M3S811 Evaluation Board (Fig. 1). The KickStart C/C++ compiler is code limited to 32Kbytes. This works well for this class of Cortex processors. The full version of IAR’s software has no limits.
The KickStart Edition is based on IAR’s Workbench that includes a C/C++ compiler, assembler, linker, librarian, text editor, project manager and C-SPY debugger. The package also includes four evaluation versions of compact RTOS software including FreeRTOS.org from FreeRTOS.org uC/OS-II from from Micrium, CMX-RTX from CMX and EmbOS RTOS from SEGGER Microcontroller Systeme GmbH.
The Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library provides a convenient method of initializing, programming, and controlling peripherals for all Stellaris microcontrollers.
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