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News Release from: Arrow Electronics (UK) | Subject: Bitfire and Atmosfire
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 May 2007
Development kit armed with STM processor
support
Development environment helps engineers to easily and rapidly evaluate, prototype and test designs built around the STMicroelectronics STR710 ARM7 microcontroller.
Arrow has expanded its support for ARM-based applications by creating a new development environment that allows engineers to easily and rapidly evaluate, prototype and test designs built around the STMicroelectronics STR710 ARM7 microcontroller Designed and built by Arrow's in-house engineering team using components from the Arrow linecard, the new development kit brings together the company's existing Bitfire kit with a PMEE (Processor Module with Extended Expansion connector) expansion module
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new Atmosfire PMEE module features the STMicroelectronics STR710 fully integrated ARM7 MCU, 1Mbyte fast SRAM, 16Mbit of serial Flash, a USB mini-B connector and a CPLD device for glue logic.
When the Atmosfire module is connected, the system automatically configures the STR710 as the target device.
The FPGA design deployed on the Bitfire board contains a high performance LED display driver that supports 8bit intensity depth on each colour and in each pixel of the built-in display.
Dual high-speed CAN channels offer programmable termination, while integrated JTAG tools simplify programming and debugging.
Additional connectivity includes a flexible UART interface and programmable RS232 and RS485 connections.
In terms of software, the kit includes a complete suite of development and debug tools based on Gnu and the Eclipse IDE/debugger; a complete set of FPGA development tools along with a fully documented board support package (BSP); graphics library; and a tiny LUA interpreter.
Examples in both C and assembler are included.
A fully documented FPGA reference design is supplied in VHDL source, and the user is given a choice of ported operating systems, (eCos, FreeRTOS, microC/OS-II and micro-Velosity).
The Bitfire and Atmosfire development solution will be unveiled in two workshops taking place in Sweden in May 2007.
These two-day workshops, which take place from 21st to 22nd May in Stockholm and from 24th to 25th May in Gothenburg, offer participants an opportunity for hands-on training including testing of different operating systems, USB devices and development environments.
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