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Free Cortex-M3 MCU dev kits from Energy Micro & CODICO
Clive Maxfield11/6/2012 11:04 AM EST
The folks at Energy Micro, who cheerfully bill themselves as "The energy friendly microcontroller and radio company," are partnering with the guys and gals at the component distribution company CODICO to distribute free EFM32GG-STK3700 Giant Gecko microcontroller starter kits at Electronica 2012 (to be held November 13-16 in Munich, Germany).
In order to qualify for a free kit, which can be used as the starting point of the development of most energy efficient applications, visitors must register their interest at the Energy Micro booth (A4.442) or the Codico booth (A5.507).
Each starter kit features a capacitive touch slider, battery operation, SEGGER J-Link debugger, and support for Energy Micro's free energyAware Profiler tool. The energyAware Profiler is used to debug software real-time and shows power profiles and current consumption so designers can achieve minimum energy consumption.
The onboard EFM32 Giant Gecko microcontroller features the ARM Cortex-M3 processor and 1024KB Flash memory. Options include USB, direct drive TFT, LCD control, 12-bit ADC, op-amps, multiple serial interfaces and CPU speeds up to 48 MHz. Additional low energy features include the Low Energy Sensor interface (LESENSE) which allows capacitive, inductive and resistive sensor processing at the 1µA level. Many more autonomous low energy peripherals are available that enable control algorithms in Deep Sleep Mode, without CPU intervention, with a current consumption of about 1µA in total.
In addition to the free kit, designers can obtain free samples of EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers directly from Energy Micro by Clicking Here.
If you found this article to be interest, visit Microcontroller / MCU Designline where – in addition to my Max's Cool Beans blogs on all sorts of "stuff" – you will find the latest and greatest design, technology, product, and news articles with regard to all aspects of designing and using microcontrollers.
Also, you can obtain a highlights update delivered directly to your inbox by signing up for my weekly newsletter – just Click Here to request this newsletter using the Manage Newsletters tab (if you aren't already a member you'll be asked to register, but it's free and painless so don't let that stop you [grin]).
Last but certainly not least, make sure you check out all of the discussions and other information resources at All Programmable Planet. For example, in addition to blogs by yours truly, microcontroller expert Duane Benson is learning how to use FPGAs to augment (sometimes replace) the MCUs in his robot (and other) projects.
In order to qualify for a free kit, which can be used as the starting point of the development of most energy efficient applications, visitors must register their interest at the Energy Micro booth (A4.442) or the Codico booth (A5.507).
Each starter kit features a capacitive touch slider, battery operation, SEGGER J-Link debugger, and support for Energy Micro's free energyAware Profiler tool. The energyAware Profiler is used to debug software real-time and shows power profiles and current consumption so designers can achieve minimum energy consumption.
The onboard EFM32 Giant Gecko microcontroller features the ARM Cortex-M3 processor and 1024KB Flash memory. Options include USB, direct drive TFT, LCD control, 12-bit ADC, op-amps, multiple serial interfaces and CPU speeds up to 48 MHz. Additional low energy features include the Low Energy Sensor interface (LESENSE) which allows capacitive, inductive and resistive sensor processing at the 1µA level. Many more autonomous low energy peripherals are available that enable control algorithms in Deep Sleep Mode, without CPU intervention, with a current consumption of about 1µA in total.
In addition to the free kit, designers can obtain free samples of EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers directly from Energy Micro by Clicking Here.
If you found this article to be interest, visit Microcontroller / MCU Designline where – in addition to my Max's Cool Beans blogs on all sorts of "stuff" – you will find the latest and greatest design, technology, product, and news articles with regard to all aspects of designing and using microcontrollers.
Also, you can obtain a highlights update delivered directly to your inbox by signing up for my weekly newsletter – just Click Here to request this newsletter using the Manage Newsletters tab (if you aren't already a member you'll be asked to register, but it's free and painless so don't let that stop you [grin]).
Last but certainly not least, make sure you check out all of the discussions and other information resources at All Programmable Planet. For example, in addition to blogs by yours truly, microcontroller expert Duane Benson is learning how to use FPGAs to augment (sometimes replace) the MCUs in his robot (and other) projects.
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