World's first starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0
1 min read
IAR Systems has announced the availability of what it claims to be the world's first commercial starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0 based microcontrollers.
The IAR KickStart kit for NXP LPC1114 was developed by NXP and IAR Systems.
According to IAR, development was speeded up by the fact that the NXP LPC11xx Cortex-M0 family is 100% pin compatible with the NXP LPC13xx Cortex-M3 family.
The kit includes a development board fitted with the LPC1114 microcontroller, an 8K KickStart edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM, and a 20 state evaluation edition of IAR visualSTATE. The board also provides debug support through IAR J-Link-OB, a standard JTAG connector or a small SWD connector.
The board is powered via the USB interface and also provides some user configurable devices such as a small lcd, buttons and leds, analogue trim wheel, buzzer and a prototyping area. The UART pins are routed to a DB9 connector.
IAR J-Link-OB is a small board mounted JTAG/SWD debug interface that connects via USB to the PC host running Windows. It integrates into IAR Embedded Workbench and is fully plug-and-play compatible.
Geoff Lees, NXP's general manager, microcontroller division, said: "Ease of development and migration path within the two compatible families is the main theme at NXP. We see this as true compatibility, not just peripheral compatibility between an older 8bit core, and a different 32bit architecture. We are extremely pleased with IAR Systems' commitment to our new Cortex-M0 family, and are very confident of their success with this kit."
