Device Programming Support for Stellaris Microcontrollers - BPM Microsystems

Luminary Micro and BPM Microsystems announced the availability of device programming support of Stellaris  family of ARM  microcontrollers across BPM Microsystems’ entire line of production equipment.

Jean Anne Booth, Luminary Micro, said:

BPM Microsystems' world-class support of our award-winning Stellaris family of microcontrollers provides our customers a rapid path to production…

We chose to work with BPM Microsystems because they have the largest installed base of major programming centers and an extremely wide variety of device programmers. BPM Micro combines technical leadership, innovative design and state-of-the-art manufacturing practices to enable Luminary Micro's customers to reduce costs, improve performance and bring Stellaris-based products to market faster…

BPM Microsystems' end users can now improve their production fulfillment speed for devices powered by the industry's first ARM Cortex -M3 microcontrollers.

Tim Nolte, BPM Microsystems:

By working closely with Luminary Micro, we provide customers with support for the industry's first and only ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers…

As the world market for microcontrollers continues to standardize on the ARM architecture at an incredible pace, BPM Microsystems is now in a great position to support 8- and 16-bit customers in making a logical transition to Luminary Micro's Stellaris microcontrollers…

Developed specifically for microcontroller applications, Luminary Micro's implementation of the Cortex-M3 processor in the Stellaris family offers the following features:

• Always single cycle flash accesses for maximal performance
• Entire software code base is written in C/C++ — no assembly language required, even in startup code and interrupt service handlers, making the devices easy to program
• Deterministic, fast interrupt processing — never more than 12 cycles, only 6 cycles with tail-chaining
• Occupies as little as half the flash code size of ARM7  family-based microcontroller applications
• No functional pin multiplexing — pins are dedicated to one peripheral, backed by GPIO, and simultaneous use of on-chip peripherals is not limited by pin sharing, so engineers are no longer forced to choose between on-chip peripherals
• Real embedded microcontroller GPIOs — all can generate interrupts, all have programmable drive strength and slew rate control
• Superior integration with an on-chip low dropout voltage regulator, on-chip power-on-reset and brown-out-reset functions, and an on-chip temperature sensor, which together save up to $1.28 in system cost
• Single cycle multiply, two cycle multiply-accumulate, and hardware divide instructions — for better performance in control applications
• Advanced motion control support in hardware and software

The Stellaris device family is supported on BPM Microsystems' full product line of device programmers in the 28-SOIC and 48-LQFP package styles.

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