Keil, an ARM® company

Keil microcontroller development tools for Cortex-M3 devices support every level of developer from the professional applications engineer to the student just learning about embedded software development.

The industry-standard tools from ARM (RealView® Compilation Tools including C/C++ Compiler, Macro Assembler, and Linker) and Keil (Debuggers, Real-time Kernels, Single-board Computers, and Emulators) support the most popular ARM microcontrollers and help you get your projects completed on schedule.

ARM®

ARM RealView® Development Suite 3.0 is the only complete, end-to-end solution for software development that supports all ARM® processors and ARM debug technology.

RealView tools offer the highest-performance ARM C/C++ compilers and support the most advanced debug technology available today for bringing up the latest SoC and ASIC designs.

CodeSourcery

CodeSourcery, in partnership with ARM, Ltd., develops improvements to the GNU Toolchain for ARM processors and provides regular, carefully tested, precompiled releases of the GNU Toolchain. CodeSourcery's releases of the GNU Toolchain support ARM, Thumb, and Thumb-2 compilation for all architectures in active use, including Version 7 of the ARM Architecture.

FreeRTOS.org™

FreeRTOS.org™ is a portable, open source, mini Real Time Kernel - a free to download and royalty free RTOS that can be used in commercial applications (see license text).

The FreeRTOS V4.0.x download includes pre-configured demo applications for Luminary Micros new ARM CORTEX M3 based LM3S102 microcontroller. In addition FreeRTOS V4.0.0 introduces co-routines - a new feature especially suited to RAM constrained embedded systems.

Rowley Associates

Rowley Associates offers software development tools, emulators, and evaluation kits for ARM and other architecture microcontrollers. Users of Stellaris microcontrollers can evaluate using the CrossFire LM3S102 Evaluation Kit. For cross-compilation, CrossWorks for ARM, hosted on Windows and Linux, supports development in C and assembly language for ARM microcontrollers. CrossWorks is the complete development solution for all your microcontroller projects, from initial design through final production.

Pumpkin, Inc.

Salvo's modest ROM and miniscule RAM requirements mean that you can have event-driven, priority-based, multitasking applications in nearly any single-chip microcontroller, with plenty of room left for your application.

IAR Systems

The IAR Embedded Workbench™ family has been providing users with advanced optimization and intelligent linking for over 20 years.

IAR Embedded Workbench supports practically all 8- and 16-bit MCU architectures, and is leading the way for ARM-based MCU development, making it the ideal development tool for Stellaris.

The new IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM and Cortex contains a completely new highly optimizing Thumb 2 C/C++ compiler, and the IAR Systems J-Link™ JTAG-to-USB hardware debug probe provides seemless integration into IAR Embedded Workbench with industry-leading flash download speed.

Express Logic

Express Logic's ThreadX® is a small-footprint, fast, royalty-free real-time operating system (RTOS) for Luminary Micro's Stellaris® family of ARM® Cortex-M3™-based microcontrollers. ThreadX is widely deployed, with over 450 million copies at work in consumer devices, industrial control, wireless communication, and medical equipment. ThreadX can be used with ARM's RealView® Development Suite, including the Keil Debugger. ThreadX is available the optional NetX™ TCP/IP stack, FileX® File System, PEGX™ Graphics software, and USBX™ USB stack. Contact Express Logic at 1-888-THREADX or via e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , or on the web at www.rtos.com.

Micriµm

µC/OS-II is a highly portable, ROMable, scalable, preemptive, real-time, multitasking kernel. µC/OS-II was certified in an avionics product by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for use in commercial aircraft by meeting the demanding requirements of the RTCA DO-178B standard for software used in avionics equipment. Since its introduction back in 1992, MicroC/OS has been used in hundreds of products. www.micrium.com

CMX Systems, Inc.

Both CMX-RTX™ and CMX-Tiny+™ RTOSes are now available for Luminary Micro's Stellaris family based on the ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller core. Both CMX-RTX and CMX-Tiny+ are truly preemptive, multi-tasking operating systems. CMX-RTX RTOS offers the smallest footprint, the fastest context switch times, and the lowest interrupt latency periods of any commercial RTOS available today. Based on the popular CMX-RTX , the CMX-Tiny+ RTOS is a scaled down "lean and mean" kernel for those processors that have a small amount of onboard RAM. Also available are TCP/IP stacks, Flash File Systems and USB Stacks. All CMX software comes with full source code and no royalties. Contact CMX Systems at 904-880-1840 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit our website at www.cmx.com.

SEGGER Microcontroller Systeme GmbH

SEGGER Microcontroller Systeme GmbH develops and distributes software (middleware) and hardware development tools for embedded systems. Segger's products include emWin, a universal graphic software for embedded applications; emFile, an embedded file system; and embOS, a small and efficient real-time kernel running on Luminary Micro's Stellaris™ family of ARM™ Cortex-M3®-based microcontrollers. SEGGER aims at cutting software development time for embedded applications by offering compact, flexible and easy-to-use middleware, allowing developers to concentrate on their applications.

Interniche Technologies, Inc.

InterNiche offers a suite of source code modules that enable embedded system developers to add networking, routing, management, security and web server/browser capabilities. Products include embedded HTTP/S server, TCP/IP stacks, NAT routing, SNMP, DHCP, and Security modules as well as other specialized Internet software.

Interniche offers NicheTask, a round-robin tasking system that contains only control logic. The API has been designed so that later the application can easily be mapped to more sophisticated embedded operating systems, without adding any overhead by simply #defining the application's tasking calls to the RTOS calls.

InterNiche Network Evaluation Kits (NEKs) are pre-integrated systems of complementary networking technologies that exercise and demonstrate the capability of the Stellaris integrated microcontrollers and can be targeted at different types of networking application profiles. Interniche NEK's offer a fully capable, integrated and optimized networked device application that has been tailored to the interfaces and memory configuration of the specific Stellaris hardware environment.

Doulos

Since 1991 Doulos has set the industry standard for high quality language and methodology training in SystemC, SystemVerilog, e, PSL, VHDL, Verilog, Perl and Tcl/Tk. An ARM Approved Training Partner for more than 7 years, Doulos has delivered ARM architecture training in the context of SoC design and ARM processor based micro-controllers to more than 50% of the world's top semiconductor companies.

BPM Microsystems

Established in 1985, BPM Microsystems is a global supplier of electronic device programmers for all applications. The company is the leading supplier of vision-based automated programming systems and sets the standard in device support, performance, ease-of-use, and cost-of-ownership. The company offers a wide variety of device programmers including Universal Programmers, Concurrent Programming Systems® and Fine-Pitch Automated Programming Systems. BPM Microsystems supports all Luminary Micro Stellaris microcontrollers and packages.

Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd

Founded in 1997, ZhiYuan Electronics is headquartered in GuangZhou, China and has more than 100 research and design engineers working in close co-operation. At its conception, the company was oriented towards developing and manufacturing developer tools like programmers, emulators, simulators, logic analysers, TCP/IP and EtherNet/IP module, ARM system platform, etc. Due to outstanding quality, efficient service, reasonable prices, and comprehensive product lines, ZhiYuan Electronics has been known as one of the leading professional manufactures in the field of device programmer. ZhiYuan Electronics continues to lead the industry in universal device support for programmable semiconductor devices by releasing new programming algorithms weekly. ZhiYuan Electronics' modular design means that the same algorithms are used on all programmers, ensuring a smooth and rapid transition from prototype to production. ZhiYuan Electronics supports all Luminary Micro Stellaris microcontrollers and packages.

iSYSTEM AG

iSYSTEM AG is a privately held, international electronics company headquartered in the suburbs of Munich, Germany. Founded in 1986, the company develops and markets a broad range of development tools for embedded systems design and test. All of the development hardware is driven by winIDEA software, the company's unique integrated development environment. winIDEA hosts all of the developers' tools in one easy-to-use system. Included are a project manager, a 3rd party tools integrator, a multi-file C source editor and a high-level source debugger - a single interface for each step in the development process. In addition to standard products, iSYSTEM also offers custom engineering capability to provide OEM customers with specialized tools, intellectual property and design services.

Code Red Technologies

Code Red Technologies Ltd. was established in 2006 to build innovative tools and technologies to accelerate the development of 32-bit microcontroller applications. Code Red Technologies is focused on providing innovating, cutting-edge support for developers using today’s leading microcontrollers.

The Code Red Tools Suite is a complete software development platform for 32-bit microcontroller devices available to target Luminary Micro Stellaris® Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers. Code Red integrates Code Trace™ Real Time Trace capability delivering features never before available to microcontroller developers. Code Trace capitalizes on the serial wire viewing (SWV) technology in Stellaris microcontrollers to deliver unprecedented visibility during debug. Code Trace delivers high accuracy profiling, interrupt statistics, interrupt tracing, RTOS event tracing and a useful and unique no overhead host-strings viewing mechanism, which provides printf style debugging and logging without any of the intrusiveness typical to other embedded debug methods. Interrupt tracing provides impressive graphical visualization of what is really going on in a real time system.

Quadros Systems, Inc.

RTXC real time operating systems have been supporting embedded applications for more than 20 years. Quadros Systems, Inc. continues the RTXC tradition of small, fast, and reliable real-time operating systems. Quadros' focus is on the RTOS needs of today's applications with an eye on the convergent processing architectures of tomorrow. The Quadros team includes the original developers of the RTXC technology and other seasoned software and hardware professionals who speak your language and understand your development challenges. Together, the Quadros team will continue to deliver system building blocks with the functionality, performance, and scalability needed by customers. Whether someone is one of the more than 10,000 worldwide users of the RTXC technology or a prospective user, Quadros Systems will provide support with proven operating systems that provide the performance, flexibility and scalability required.

SEVENSTAX

SEVENSTAX GmbH is specialized in developing systems with high requirements regarding to operating security but reasonable hardware costs. SEVENSTAX integrates communication technology, especially the Internet, with all kinds of systems and appliances. Together with customers SEVENSTAX creates new applications – the maintenance or diagnosis of systems via the Internet as well as new generations of consumer products. If you have systems which could be more effective when using network technology SEVENSTAX has got the know-how of the data transfer. SEVENSTAX will support customers to manage projects efficiently and of prime quality. SEVENSTAX's strengths lie in the communications software for embedded systems.

National Instruments

For more than 20 years, NI LabVIEW graphical development has revolutionized the development of scalable test, measurement, and control applications. Regardless of experience, engineers and scientists can rapidly and cost-effectively interface with measurement and control hardware, analyze data, share results, and distribute systems.

The LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers features LabVIEW drivers that make it possible for domain experts to graphically program all components of the ARM microcontroller including the analog and digital I/O. The module also features desktop simulation capabilities so that users can run the programs they develop for an ARM microcontroller on a desktop PC without any additional hardware. Engineers and scientists can use the desktop simulation with NI Multisim, the interactive SPICE simulation and circuit analysis software, to simulate the entire signal design chain for a truly comprehensive embedded system design simulation environment.

Micromint

Founded in 1979, Micromint is a leading supplier of single-board computers and industrial embedded controllers to the worldwide OEM market with over 500,000 controllers in the marketplace. Micromint provides standard components, versatile semi-custom configurations, and fully engineered custom solutions to OEMs, consultants, and end users alike.

The Eagle 100 is a single board computer designed for cost-sensitive control applications that require real-time performance, networking and extensive support of popular peripherals. It delivers 32-bit performance and features at a cost equivalent to legacy 8- and 16-bit controllers. Powered by a Luminary Micro ARM Cortex-M3 core capable of over 60 MIPS, the Eagle 100 can fulfill demanding requirements in monitoring, instrumentation, data acquisition, process control, factory automation and many other applications. An extensive array of peripherals is built-in plus expandability is available using PC/104 I/O cards. Several peripherals can be reconfigured with the programmable logic capabilities of the integrated CPLD.

port GmbH

port GmbH is an independent software company which develops communication protocol stacks and development tools mainly for the automation market. The main protocols supported are CAN based DeviceNet and CANopen and Ethernet based real-time protocols like POWERLINK, EtherCAT, Profinet, EthernetIP but also standard TCP/IP. For the development of communication interfaces port is offering complete tool-chains starting with the design phase, to libraries in C code or object code, up to sophisticated test tools and the required bus interfaces.

The protocol software meets the demands of modern automation systems and is implemented in many customer applications already including safety devices according to SIL3.