Luminary Micro Announces New Third-Party Support for Stellaris® Microcontrollers

Luminary Micro Inc. announced the immediate availability of additional third party support for its Stellaris® family of microcontrollers (MCUs). Development tools available from Keil,™ IAR, and CodeSourcery™ now support a total of seven RTOSes for the Stellaris MCUs. Evaluation and demonstration versions of the RTOSes are available in Stellaris development and evaluation kits. In some cases, the limited-use versions of RTOSes are also available for download from the company’s website.

"A year ago when we launched the first Stellaris MCU, we emphasized that along with removing the barriers to 32-bit performance at 8/16-bit prices, one of the many key benefits of the Stellaris family was gaining entry into the expansive ARM community of third-party supporters," said Luminary Micro Chief Marketing Officer Jean Anne Booth. "Accessing this vast ecosystem of tried-and-true tools and software not only eliminates the headaches of tools changes, but also the necessity for architectural upgrades."

The Stellaris Family Development Kits feature a Stellaris MCU, along with a peripheral driver library, documentation, schematics, example programs, and all cables and jumpers. In addition, Luminary Micro and its third party partners also offer evaluation kits focused on a single member of the Stellaris family and featuring a specific development tools environment. The evaluation kits feature a Stellaris MCU, along with the peripheral driver library, documentation, schematics, example programs, and all necessary cables.

"An RTOS delivers a time-to-market advantage to embedded software developers by providing useful system functions that they would otherwise need to implement, debug, and maintain themselves," said Booth. "It’s a wonderful advantage to embedded software developers that RTOS support for Stellaris microcontrollers is available from the leading suppliers of embedded RTOSes with small memory footprints, fast context switch times, and rapid interrupt response."