Luminary Micro Demonstrates Its 4th Generation of Stellaris Family Products on a New Stellaris Development Kit Platform

AUSTIN, Texas - Comprehensive Stellaris DK-LM3S9B96 has developers up and running in 10
minutes or less

Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winning Stellaris(R) family of
ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), today announced the new
Stellaris DK-LM3S9B96 Development Kit platform in support of the ten new
Stellaris family members launched earlier this month. The new development kit
provides users access to all the features of the new Stellaris
microcontrollers, including new combinations of connectivity, data
efficiency, and advanced motion control. The DK-LM3S9B96 is on display today
at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California, in Luminary
Micro’s booth (#1802).

In addition to enabling access to the rich features of the latest
Stellaris microcontroller family members - including simultaneous interfaces
for Ethernet MAC/PHY, USB On-The-Go, and Controller Area Network - the
DK-LM3S9B96 adds several features that enhances the overall user experience,
such as an integrated 3.5-inch color QVGA LCD graphics display with a
resistive touch interface, a thumbwheel potentiometer (for menu navigation),
a MicroSD card slot, 1 MB of serial Flash memory, precision 3V analog
reference voltage, user LED and pushbutton, and I/O wired to convenient
break-out pads. Moreover, the DK-LM3S9B96 takes full advantage of the
Stellaris family’s new versatile External Peripheral Interface with an 8 MB
SDRAM memory module attachment and the new Integrated Interchip Sound (I2S)
Interface with an external audio codec and interface supporting line in/out,
microphone in, and headphone out.

Development Kit Based on the New Feature-Rich Stellaris LM3S9B96
Microcontroller

The Stellaris DK-LM3S9B96 features the fully integrated Stellaris
LM3S9B96 MCU (also announced today). The LM3S9B96 microcontroller is based on
the new low-power revision of the ARM Cortex-M3 controller core operating at
up to 80 MHz, with 256 KB flash, 96 KB SRAM, a 32-channel DMA, a 32-bit
external peripheral interface, a 16MHz internal 1% precision oscillator, and
on-chip ROM preloaded with the royalty-free StellarisWare(TM) Peripheral
Driver Library, Boot Loader, AES encryption lookup tables, a cyclical
redundancy check (CRC) function, and the SafeRTOS kernel for general RTOS and
safety critical applications. The LM3S9B96 also features real-time industrial
connectivity, with a 10/100 Ethernet MAC/PHY, 2 CAN controllers, USB 2.0 Full
Speed OTG/Host/Device, 2 SSI / SPI controllers, 2 I2C interfaces, an I2S
interface, and 3 UARTs, as well as hardware-assisted support for synchronized
industrial networks utilizing the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP).
The LM3S9B96 microcontroller also features advanced motion control features,
including 8 motion-control PWM outputs with dead-band timers, two quadrature
encoder inputs for precise position monitoring, and 4 fault protection inputs
for low-latency shutdown. The microcontroller also features intelligent
analog capability, including 3 analog comparators and 16 channels of highly
accurate 10-bit analog-to-digital conversion - with the ability to sample two
channels simultaneously at speeds of 1M samples per second. Finally, the
LM3S9B96 microcontroller provides 16 digital comparators, a 24-bit Systick
timer, four 32-bit or eight 16-bit general-purpose timers, 2 watchdog timers
with different clock sources, a low drop-out voltage regulator so that only
one supply voltage is required, brown-out reset, power-on reset controller,
and up to 65 GPIOs.

All-inclusive Development Kit has Everything Needed to Be Running in 10
Minutes or Less

The feature-rich DK-LM3S9B96 development kit includes the development
board, all required cables (JTAG, Ethernet, USB, USB OTG-to-Host and USB
OTG-to Device cables), four different evaluation tools suites for popular
development tools, documentation, a complete StellarisWare Firmware
Development Package (including the free StellarisWare Driver Library, Boot
Loader, Graphics Library, and USB Library), a USB Flash Drive, a microSD
Card, an 8 MB SDRAM memory module, and a breakout board for the External
Peripheral Interface - everything a developer needs to get up and running in
10 minutes or less, for a superb “out-of-the-box” experience. The kit spans
the design spectrum from evaluation to prototyping to application-specific
design by functioning both as a development platform and as a serial
in-circuit debug interface for any Stellaris microcontroller-based target
board.

Software tools suite choices included in the kit include evaluation
versions of ARM RealView(R) Microcontroller Development kit (MDK), IAR
Embedded Workbench(R) Kickstart Edition, Code Red Technologies Red Suite(TM),
and CodeSourcery Sourcery G++(TM) GNU tools. In addition to the ROM-based
SafeRTOS included in the LM3S9B96 microcontroller, ported demos of RTOSes
include FreeRTOS.org(TM), Micrium uC/OS-II with uC/Probe embedded system
monitoring, Express Logic ThreadX(R), CMX Systems CMX-RTX(TM), Keil(TM) RTX,
IAR PowerPac(TM), SEGGER embOS, Quadros RTXC(TM), MicroDigital’s SMX(R),
RoweBot’s Unison Ultra Tiny Embedded Linux and POSIX Compatible RTOS, and
SCIOPTA’s real-time operating system for safety-critical applications.
Communications stacks available for the new kit and microcontrollers include
Express Logic USBX(TM); Micrium uC/USB Device, uC/USB Host, uC/Modbus and
uC/CAN protocol stacks; CMX Systems CMX-MicroNet(TM), CMX-USB Device, and
CMX-CANopen(TM) protocol stacks; Quadros RTXCusb Host and Device stacks,
CANopenRT CAN stack, and QuadNet TCP/IP stack; SEGGER emUSB Device stack and
embOS/IP TCP/IP stack; MicroDigital smxUSBD Device stack, smxUSBH Host stack,
and smxUSBO On-The-Go (OTG) stack; port GmbH CANopen Library for Stellaris
Microcontrollers; SEVENSTAX GmbH TCP/IP Stack and Embedded Web Server; and
zhaw PTPv2 stack.

Pricing and Availability

The new Stellaris DK-LM3S9B96 development kit will be available through
Luminary Micro’s global sales channel (www.LuminaryMicro.com/sales) and
online in late Q2 for 425 USD. Learn more at
www.luminarymicro.com/products/whats_new.html.

About Luminary Micro and Stellaris

Luminary Micro, Inc. designs, markets and sells ARM Cortex-M3-based
microcontrollers (MCUs). Austin, Texas-based Luminary Micro is the lead
partner for the Cortex-M3 processor, delivering the world’s first silicon
implementation of the Cortex-M3 processor. Stellaris mixed-signal
microcontrollers contain specialized capabilities for applications in energy,
security, and connectivity markets. With the world’s largest selection of
ARM-based microcontrollers, Luminary Micro’s Stellaris family allows for
standardization that eliminates future architectural upgrades or software
tools changes.

Stellaris and the Luminary Micro logo are registered trademarks, and
StellarisWare is a trademark of Luminary Micro, Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States and other countries. All other brands or product names are
the property of their respective holders.

Luminary Micro Company Contact:
Jean Anne Booth / CMO / +1-512-917-3088 mobile / +1-512-279-8801 office /
JeanAnne.Booth@LuminaryMicro.com

Source: Luminary Micro

Jean Anne Booth, CMO of Luminary Micro, office, +1-512-279-8801, mobile, +1-512-917-3088, JeanAnne.Booth at LuminaryMicro.com