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If you already have a Luminary Micro Development Kit supporting a different Stellaris family member, you can work specifically with another microcontroller by ordering the daughterboard for that chip.

Development Board

Motherboard

• UART transceiver and DB9 male connector
• All I/O available on headers
• One potentiometer and one photocell for driving the comparator inputs
• Eight user LEDs and one pushbutton for use with the Stellaris™ GPIOs
• Standard ARM® 20-pin JTAG debug connector
• USB 2.0 full-speed interface allows JTAG/SWD debug without external in-circuit emulator (ICE)
• 1 Mbit SPI-based flash memory
• One buzzer for PWM use
• 32.768 kHz oscillator for real-time clock
• External reset switch and power-on reset supervisor
• 5 V and 3.3 V LED power indicators
• User-prototype area
• Peripheral Device Controller (PDC) CPLD for interface with:
  • 16 character by 2-line LCD display
  • 8 status LEDs
  • 8-position dual-inline package (DIP) switch
  • 24 GPIOs

Daughterboards

• Daughterboards enable support for multiple package/pin-out options
• Footprint for 48-pin LQFP Stellaris microcontroller
• 6 MHz crystal mounted on pin sockets for easy crystal changes
• SMA connector for external clock
• Power and ground test loops
• Jumper-selectable 32.768 kHz clock
• All daughterboard connector signals accessible via headers on the daughterboard

Software

• Stellaris peripheral driver library (source and object code), providing an easy API interface to all microcontroller peripherals
• Stellaris microcontroller code examples
• Application examples for included toolsets

Tools

ARM/Keil RealView Microcontroller Development Kit

• Combines the ARM RealView® compilation tools with the Keil µVision® Integrated Development Environment (IDE), providing developers with a feature-rich environment optimized for Stellaris microcontrollers
• Project management and device and tool configuration
• Source code editor optimized for embedded systems
• Target debugging and flash programming
• Accurate device simulation (CPU and peripheral)
• Includes RTX real time kernel
• 16K Address-limited evaluation version

CodeSourcery G++ GNU

• Eclipse Integrated Development Environment
• GNU ISO C/C++ Compilers and Runtime Libraries
• Source-level and assembly-level debugging with the GNU debugger
• Powerful linker and flexible macro assembler
• Easy-to-install binary packages
• 30-day fully functional demonstration version of CodeSourcery's professional-quality version of the GNU toolchain

IAR Systems Embedded Workbench

• Set of sophisticated and easy-to-use development tools for embedded applications
• Integrates the IAR C/C++ compiler, assembler, linker, librarian, text editor, project manager and C-SPY debugger in one integrated development environment (IDE)
• 32 KB code-size limited KickStart version is included with device-, debug-, and download support for Stellaris microcontrollers

FreeRTOS.org™ RTOS

• Portable, open-source miniature real-time kernel for embedded applications
• Royalty-free, even for commercial applications
• Supports preemptive, cooperative, and co-routine execution
• Contains preconfigured demonstration application
• Includes source code

Pumpkin Salvo™ Lite RTOS

• Scalable, easy to learn and highly configurable, Salvo provides the power, speed and flexibility of an RTOS in low-cost embedded designs
• Event-driven priority-based multitasking RTOS with up to 16 separate dynamic task priority levels
• Provides intertask communications and synchronization, ISR-to-task communications, and resource sharing
• Event support includes semaphores, messages, message queues, and event flags
• Extremely small data and memory footprints with over 50 user-callable RTOS services
• Includes complete Salvo feature set (except for advanced configuration options and source code); eval version limited to four tasks and five events

Express Logic ThreadX® RTOS

• Easy to use, with a small footprint and fast response time
• Preemption Threshold™ technology eliminates excessive context switching and un-deterministic priority inversion, and enhances responsiveness
• Priority inheritance, flexible memory utilization, and dynamic creation of system resources
• Included demo version supports a limited set of RTOS objects and is provided in binary form only
• Demo application utilizes 8 threads and related objects (queues, semaphores, and so on)

Micrium µC/OS-II RTOS

• Highly portable, ROMable, scalable, preemtive real-time, deterministic, multitasking kernel
• Scalable to only contain the features needed, and thus provide a small footprint
• Execution time for most services is both constant and deterministic
• Includes full functionality and source code (must be licensed when used in a commercial application)

CMX-RTX™ RTOS

• Smallest footprint, fastest context switch times, and lowest interrupt latency periods of any commercial RTOS available today
• Includes support for: tasks, messages, queues, system, events, memory, resource, semaphores, timers, interrupts and optional kernel aware debugging
• Integrates with CMX-MicroNet™ TCP/IP stack for those applications requiring networking connectivity
• Includes full functionality and source code (must be licensed when used in a commercial application)

ARM RealView® Real-Time Library RTX Real-Time Kernel

• Provides RTOS support for multitasking, real-time control, and inter-task communication
• Integrates with a TCP/IP networking stack, Flash file system, USB device drivers, and CAN device drivers optimized for the particular MCU
• Included as a configurable object in MDK-ARM eval tools
• Provided in source form in the separately purchased RealView Real-Time Library

Segger embOS RTOS

• One of the smallest and fastest kernels anywhere
• Fully interruptible kernel; fully preemtive; and allows task switches even in interrupt handlers
• TCP/IP stack available for those applications requiring networking connectivity
• Requires no configuration
• embOSView (real time monitoring and profiling) included
• Source code available