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News Release from: Abacus Group | Subject: DK3200 development kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 January 2003
Dev kit moves 8051-based designs to SoCs
Designers can now move their 8051 applications onto a 21st century SoC class of devices using a low-cost development kit from Abacus Polar.
Designers can now move their 8051 applications onto a 21st century SoC class of devices using a low-cost development kit from Abacus Polar Priced at only GBP 99, Abacus believes the kit will be of particular interest to developers working on applications with large amounts of code and/or data storage, such as point-of-sale peripherals, building security, alarm and access control, industrial control and instrumentation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The DK3200 board is a development kit for the STMicroelectronics micro PSD3200 family of devices, also available from Abacus Polar.
Based on ST's proprietary PSD programmable system device architecture, the micro PSD3200 brings high-density Flash and SoC class on-chip peripherals to the 8051-compatible core.
Using the DK3200, available at low cost from Abacus Polar, designers can evaluate the impact of 288Kbyte of Flash memory and 8Kbyte of SRAM, USB and many other on-chip peripherals on their embedded control applications.
In addition to the development board, the kit comes with a Flashlink JTAG programmer, power supply, Keil IDE evaluation kit, PSDsoft Express and DK3200 demonstration software and example code.
The board offers full access to the MCU bus, and connects easily to an in-circuit emulator without a costly adapter.
The Keil MON51 background debugger runs separately on a second UART, enhancing debugging performance, and HP logic analyser cables connect directly to expansion connectors.
The micro PSD3200 family devices feature large dual-bank Flash memories, a large SRAM, Flash-based programmable logic and JTAG in-system programming (ISP).
According to Abacus Polar, it allows designers to evolve their investment in 8051 firmware, tools, and expertise with upgraded Flash, SRAM and peripherals.
The full peripheral set potentially includes a USB interface, two UART channels, four 8bit PWM units, four 8bit ADC channels, an I2C master-slave interface, a data-display channel (DDC), supervisory functions such as a watchdog timer and low-voltage detect, and up to 50 general-purpose I/O pins.
The 80-pin TQFP versions allow connection of the 8032-address/data bus to external parallel peripherals.
A 52-pin TQFP version is available without this bus access.
Abacus Polar is offering the family in 52-pin and 80-pin TQFP packages, with industrial operating temperature at 5.0 and 3.3V.
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