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News Release from: Toshiba Electronics Europe | Subject: TOPAS86FS49 starter kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 February 2005
Starter kit puts MCU to work on
appliances
A new development platform provides all the hardware and software needed to design, prototype, test and debug embedded applications targeted at the industrial and home appliance market.
Toshiba Electronics Europe has a new development platform that provides all of the hardware and software needed to design, prototype, test and debug embedded applications targeted at the industrial and home appliance market Based around the company's new 60Kbyte Flash 8bit microcontroller, the TOPAS86FS49 starter kit platform can eliminate the requirement for additional and costly development and debug tools
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The TMP86FS49 microcontroller incorporates Silicon Storage Technologies' (SST) SuperFlash memory with focused peripherals such as I2C, 10bit ADCs and standard UART channels.
The TOPAS86FS49 starter kit combines a hardware development board with debugging and development software, a Flash memory programmer, and extensive software libraries, examples, and application notes.
In addition to the TMP86FS49 microcontroller itself, the development board supplied with the starter kit incorporates an LCD module, a keypad, trigger buttons, status LEDs, a serial EEPROM device, a buzzer, a loudspeaker connector and a variety of interfaces including RS232, I2C and USB connections.
However, the key to simplifying program development lies in the integrated development environment (IDE) that Toshiba has built around the hardware.
This single framework provides everything the engineer needs for debugging, program building, editing and programming, and simulation.
For instance - and unusually for an 8bit solution - the IDE incorporates a powerful ROM monitor.
This ROM monitor offers a number of debug and editing functions, allowing designers to use the Starter Kit in place of an expensive in-circuit emulator (ICE).
Furthermore, the incorporation of a simulator that provides full core and peripheral simulation allows engineers to continue their development work even if they are sharing the starter kit with a number of designers in a project team.
In addition to the hardware and software, the TOPAS86FS49 starter kit provides designers with a variety of application notes and software examples, as well as all the datasheets and manuals needed to support development and testing.
The software is fully compatible with Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 98, with online help providing further support to the engineer during the design and debugging process.
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