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Friday, December 19, 2008
$39 USB tool eases real-time development
Dec 19 2008 2:26PM | Permalink |Comments (3) |
A new Piccolo family of microcontrollers from Texas Instruments (TI) offers real-time embedded designers a higher level of integration by combining the CPU and memory with a series of built-in peripheral modules including a 12-bit analog to digital converter, enhanced pulse width modulators (ePWMs), on-chip oscillators, analog comparators, communication interfaces, and general purpose I/O. To simplify development of Piccolo-based projects, TI just announced the $39 controlSTICK evaluation tool in a USB stick form factor. The controlSTICK comes with a 32 KB limited Code Composer Studio Integrated development Environment (IDE) plus example projects that walk through Piccolo MCUs’ functionality, from simply blinking an LED to configuring the ePWM peripherals. For more advanced applications, TI also offers a $79 Experimenter’s Kit that allows designers to develop and prototype complete Piccolo MCU-based projects.
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Reader Comments
at 12/22/2008 5:42:47 PM, Tim Crawford said:
Is there GNU support?
I like using GCC, it's free
at 1/7/2009 2:19:29 PM, Larry M said:
Why do you need GCC? Code Composer comes free with the $39 hardware.
at 1/9/2009 7:44:31 PM, sylvan said:
...comes with a 32 KB limited Code Composer...
And the price to get the real tool is silly.
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