Easy intro to Internet-enabled MCU

A new microcontroller starter kit provides designers with a complete solution for the development, prototyping and debugging of Internet-enabled embedded systems.

A new microcontroller starter kit from Toshiba provides designers with a complete solution for the development, prototyping and debugging of Internet-enabled embedded systems without the need to purchase costly tool chains.

The new TOPAS92FD54 kit significantly simplifies the design and implementation of embedded web servers, and is supplied with a web server temperature-monitoring example that demonstrates the capabilities of the hardware and software.

Toshiba's TOPAS92FD54 kit is based around the company's new high-performance TMP92FD54AIF 32bit CISC microcontroller and a TCP/IP stack that has been developed by CMX Systems.

The kit includes an evaluation board, power supply and cables, debugging and development software, a flash memory programmer, and extensive software libraries and documentation.

A number of software examples with source code are also provided.

The new kit's evaluation board combines the Toshiba 32bit TMP92FD54AIF microcontroller plus an Ethernet chip.

CAN and RS232 serial connectivity are also provided, along with status LEDs and header connectors for connecting additional hardware.

An onboard sensor provides the temperature measurement functionality for the web server demonstration.

Development software supplied with the new kit includes an integrated development environment (IDE), compiler and project manager tools, as well as a simulator and a debugger.

A ROM monitor for in-target debugging and C compiler, assembler and linker are also provided.

A flash programmer simplifies the download of code onto the microcontroller.

Extensive software examples and libraries supplied with the new kit include the TCP/IP stack, the temperature measurement solution, a hardware timer application for pulsewidth modulation (PWM), and a CAN communication solution featuring transfer rate measurement.

Designed to combine RISC-level performance with the advantages of a CISC architecture, the TMP92FD54AIF delivers a 20ns instruction execution time at 20MHz.

The device uses Toshiba's 32bit TLCS-900/H1 CPU core and features 512Kbyte of onboard Flash memory plus 32Kbyte of RAM.

Peripherals and connectivity options include a memory controller, timer/counters, a 10bit ADC, CAN 2.0B controller functionality, and SPI and I2C interfaces.

The device is supplied in a 100-pin LQFP package and is fully code compatible with Toshiba's 16bit microcontrollers.

The CMX-MicroNet package from CMX Systems is a high-performance TCP/IP implementation that has been specifically developed for embedded systems.

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