Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Luminary Micro | Subject: LM3S6000 and LM3S2000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 June 2007
ARM MCU range adds networking options
Microcontrollers offer choice of Ethernet and CAN networking capabilities for real-time applications
Luminary Micro has added 27 new microcontrollers to its Stellaris product line, bringing innovative networking capabilities for real-time applications in motion control, building and industrial automation, fire and security, remote sensing, instrumentation, point-of-sales and deeply embedded connected systems.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 June 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The LM3S6000 series are the first MCUs in the world featuring a fully integrated 100Mbit/s Ethernet solution with ARM architecture compatibility.
The new devices comprise 12 members of the Stellaris LM3S6000 Ethernet series and 15 members of the Stellaris LM3S2000 CAN series.
These new MCUs extend the world-class benefits of the Stellaris family with real-time networking, larger on-chip memories, enhanced power management and expanded I/O capabilities.
Evaluation kits for the new MCUs are available immediately through Luminary Micro's global sales channel.
The new MCUs are sampling today and will be available in volume production next quarter.
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Luminary Micro now has 51 Stellaris MCUs available in global distribution, just 14 months after the company announced it was selected as ARM's lead partner for Cortex-M3 development.
The LM3S6000 devices combine both the media access control (MAC) and physical (PHY) layers, marking the first time that integrated connectivity is available with an ARM Cortex-M3 MCU and the only integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC and PHY available in an ARM architecture MCU.
The Stellaris LM3S2000 series, designed for Controller Area Network (CAN) applications, extends the Stellaris family with Bosch CAN networking technology, the golden standard in short-haul industrial networks.
This introduction marks the first integration of CAN capabilities with the revolutionary Cortex-M3 core.
Stellaris family MCUs are based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, the microcontroller member of the ARM Cortex processor family.
Designed for serious microcontroller applications, the Stellaris family provides entry into the industry's strongest ecosystem, with code compatibility ranging from $1 to 1GHz.
'Being ARM's lead partner for the Cortex-M3 has given us the opportunity to really demonstrate the strengths and capabilities of this optimised MCU core, reaching far beyond any that are currently available', says Chief Marketing Officer Jean Anne Booth.
'In a year's time we've brought the ARM architecture to embedded developers for the ground-breaking price of just $1.00; we were the first to bring serious motion control capability to the ARM architecture; and now we are bringing integrated CAN and Ethernet connectivity to designers previously limited to 8 and 16bit options'.
This announcement includes the arrival of two complete evaluation kits: the Stellaris LM3S6965 Ethernet Evaluation Kit and the Stellaris LM3S2965 CAN Evaluation Kit.
The Stellaris LM3S6965 Ethernet Evaluation Kit is exceptional for its compactness and versatility, and includes a quickstart application that includes an embedded web server utilising the open source lwIP TCP/IP stack out of the box.
Evaluation tools suite choices include ARM RealView microcontroller development kit (MDK), IAR Embedded Workbench Kickstart Edition, and CodeSourcery Sourcery G++ GNU tools.
In addition, ported demos of RTOSs include FreeRTOS.org, Micrium uC/OS-II with uC/Probe embedded system monitoring, Express Logic ThreadX, CMX Systems CMX-RTX, Keil RTX, IAR PowerPac and Segger embOS.
The Stellaris LM3S2965 CAN Evaluation Kit is provided as a fully functional CAN network in a box, with both an LM3S2965-based master board and a LM3S2110-based CAN device board, and a quick start application that demonstrates CAN communication out of the box.
Evaluation tools suite choices include ARM RealView Microcontroller Development kit (MDK), IAR Embedded Workbench Kickstart Edition, and CodeSourcery Sourcery G++ Gnu tools.
The Stellaris LM3S6965 Ethernet Evaluation Kit is available today for US $79.00.
The Stellaris LM3S2965 CAN Evaluation Kit is available today for US $89.00.
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