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$99 microcontroller-development kit includes IDE, software

By Warren Webb -- EDN, 2/17/2005

Goal Semiconductor has recently introduced the UVK (UniVersaKit) development kit and evaluation system that supports all Goal Versa product families, as well as most industry-standard 8051 microcontrollers. The kit comes with an IDE (integrated development environment), a C compiler, and an assembler (Picture). The board includes 3.3 and 5V voltage regulators, an RS-232 transceiver, switches for manual reset and interrupt triggering, eight user-defined LEDs, an I²C-based EEPROM, a piezoelectric buzzer, and user prototyping space. The UVK also includes logic for programming and in-circuit debugging of the vendor’s mixed-signal Versa devices. Goal Semiconductor ships its programming and debugging software with the development kit and frequently posts updates on its Web site. The UVK costs $99.

Goal Semiconductor, www.goalsemi.com.