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IAR releases the IAR Kickstart Kit

An IAR Systems product story
Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Oct 20, 2008

IAR Systems has introduced a complete development kit for STMicroelectronics' STM32F103ZE microcontroller.

The IAR Kickstart Kit includes a development board fitted with the STM32F103ZE microcontroller, a Kickstart edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM and evaluation editions of IAR Powerpac for ARM and IAR Visualstate.

J-Link for ARM is mounted on the board.

STM32F103ZE features up to 512kB Flash, USB, CAN, 11 timers, three ADCs and 13 communication interfaces.

It has a total of 144 pins, making it suitable for the following applications: motor drive and application control; medical and handheld equipment; PC peripherals, gaming and GPS platforms; industrial applications such as PLC, inverters, printers, and scanners; alarm systems; video intercom; and HVAC.

The STM32F103ZE-SK development board features the following peripherals: a stepper motor, three-axis accelerometer, SD/MMC card slot, I2S routed to speaker codec, a DAC with one channel routed to pin and an ADC routed to a potentiometer.

Interfaces provided include a USB 2.0 full speed connector, CAN routed to three-pin terminal block, I2C and SPI1 both routed to UEXT and two USART DB9 connectors.

A standard 20-pin JTAG/SWD interface connector and an ETM v3 Trace are provided for debugging, along with a J-Link-OB mounted on the evaluation board.

External power is connected either via the J-Link or USB; the mode can be selected by a jumper.

Controls and indicators provided include: a status LED, a power supply LED, a reset button, an AN-TR potentiometer, colour LCD display, four user LEDs, two user buttons to simulate external events, one wake-up, a joystick, a prototype area and a jumper for measuring power consumption from the controller.

The board and its components are RoHS compliant.

Using IAR Embedded Workbench and Visualstate with the evaluation board will allow the developer to approach new applications using a familiar IDE and take advantage of a small footprint RTOS in the form of IAR Powerpac.

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