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

New RTOSes in Stellaris Development and Evaluation Kits Showcase the Advantage of the ARM® Ecosystem for World’s First Cortex-M3-Based MCUs

AUSTIN, TX, USA – February 13, 2007– Luminary Micro, a fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets, and sells award-winning ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor-based microcontrollers and was the first to bring ARM for $1.00 to embedded developers, announces today 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 popular 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 Luminary Micro’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.”

Stellaris Family Development Kits feature a Stellaris MCU, along with a peripheral driver library, documentation, schematics, example programs, and all cables and jumpers. Stellaris Family Development Kits also include evaluation versions of popular software and hardware development tools:

• ARM RealView® Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK-ARM);
• IAR Embedded Workbench KickStart Edition; and
• CodeSourcery’s Sourcery G++™ software development environment.

The seven available RTOSes currently supported in Stellaris Family Development kits are:

• FreeRTOS.org, by FreeRTOS.org
• SalvoLite™, from Pumpkin, Inc.
• µC/OS-II, by Micrium
• ThreadX™, by ExpressLogic
• CMX-RTX™, by CMX, Inc. (New in the kit)
• EmbOS, by Segger (New in the kit)
• RTX, by Keil (New in the kit)

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 compact and cost-effective evaluation kits feature a Stellaris MCU, along with the peripheral driver library, documentation, schematics, example programs, and all necessary cables. The evaluation kits now also include demonstration versions of RTOSes that run on that evaluation kit in that tools environment:

• The EKK-LM3S811 Stellaris LM3S811 Evaluation Kit with ARM RealView Microcontroller Development Kit now includes demonstration RTOSes from FreeRTOS.org, Pumpkin, ExpressLogic, CMX, Segger, and Keil.
• The new EKI-LM3S811 Stellaris LM3S811 Evaluation Kit with IAR Embedded WorkBench KickStart Edition includes demonstration RTOSes from FreeRTOS.org, Micrium, CMX, and Segger.
• The new EKC-LM3S811 Stellaris LM3S811 Evaluation Kit with CodeSourcery SourceryG++ includes demonstration RTOSes from FreeRTOS.org, and Pumpkin.

“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.”

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 core. Luminary Micro’s introduction of the Stellaris® family of products provides 32-bit performance for the same price as current 8- and 16-bit microcontroller designs. With entry level pricing at $1.00 for an ARM technology-based MCU, Luminary Micro’s Stellaris product line allows for standardization that eliminates future architectural upgrades or software tools changes. Contact the company at 1-512-279-8800 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.

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