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News Release from: Toshiba Electronics Europe | Subject: TOPAS91FY22 Starter Kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 February 2005
Kit offers speedy start for 16bit MCU
designs
A new embedded systems development platform aims to simplify the prototyping and testing of designs using the latest ultra-low-power high-speed Flash-memory-based 16bit MCU technology.
Toshiba Electronics has launched an embedded systems development platform to simplify the prototyping and testing of designs using the latest ultra-low-power high-speed Flash-memory-based 16bit microcontroller technology The kit will reduce cost and development time in mid- to large-scale embedded applications ranging from consumer electronics to industrial control systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The TOPAS91FY22 Starter Kit eliminates the need for additional and costly development and debug tools by providing all of the hardware and software required to develop and test applications based on the TMP91FY22 16bit microcontroller.
This low-cost device is a recent addition to the company's TLCS-900/L1 ultra-low-power series and combines 256Kbyte of Flash memory with a wide variety of integrated peripherals.
Toshiba's new starter kit platform combines a hardware development board with an integrated development environment (IDE) that provides everything the engineer needs for debugging, program building, editing and Flash memory programming, and simulation.
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The kit also provides software examples, demonstration programs, application notes and all of the documentation needed for "out-of-the-box" development.
At the heart of the hardware development board is the 100-pin, QFP TMP91FY22 16bit microcontroller.
This micro is based on the TLCS-900/L1 ultra-low-power core, which combines a general-purpose register bank for rapid context switching with a high-speed, four-channel micro-DMA and powerful bit manipulation and arithmetic instructions.
In addition to 256Kbyte of Flash memory, the TMP91FY22 offers: 16Kbyte SRAM; a 10bit, 12-channel ADC; 8bit, 16bit and watchdog timers; and an I2C serial bus interface.
The TOPAS91FY22 development board combines the TMP91FY22 microcontroller with an LCD, USB and RS232 interfaces, a USB to RS232 convertor chip and a filtered loudspeaker output for speech IP and other sound functions.
The TOPAS91FY22 IDE features ROM monitor, simulator and project manager functionality as well as a C compiler and assembler and linker capabilities.
The ROM monitor offers a comprehensive suite of debug and editing functions, giving the designer the option to use the starter kit rather than a more expensive in-circuit emulator (ICE) The incorporation of a simulator that provides full core and peripheral simulation allows engineers to continue their development work even when sharing the kit with other members of a project team.
To further simplify application development, Toshiba's new starter kit offers software examples for key functions such as UART communication and Flash memory programming, as well as a third party Flash programming tool.
application notes, a demonstration program for speech IP, and a comprehensive set of technical documentation are also provided.
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