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- It’s About More Than Just the Chip
It’s About More Than Just the Chip
When designing an embedded solution there’s no argument that the MPU/MCU is the heart of the design. Without many other components, you won’t have a complete solution. Just like chocolate chip cookies, without the other ingredients you don’t actually have cookies, just chips. As any chef knows, having the right ingredients nearby and ready for use makes the process a lot smoother. The same holds true for embedded solutions.
With our “chips,” Kinetis MCUs, you can access essential “ingredients” “enablement software and tools”to help you quickly jump-start your design. One of the newest ingredients is our software development kit (SDK) for Kinetis MCUs. It is a complimentary comprehensive software package specific to the Kinetis portfolio of MCUs, which are based on ARM® Cortex®- M4 and -M0+ cores, and offers an extensive suite of robust peripheral drivers, stacks, middleware and example applications. This new addition to the enablement portfolio is designed to simplify and accelerate application development with any Kinetis MCU. Along with the beta release of MQX RTOS for Kinetis SDK v1.0.0
this power combo of an SDK and an RTOS enable you to create something exciting.
Next, on the list of enablement is the complimentary Kinetis Design Studio integrated development environment (IDE). It provides all the basic requirements needed for software development on Kinetis MCUs to help you begin your design right away. It’s based on free, open source software including Eclipse, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Debugger (GDB), and others. The Kinetis Design Studio IDE offers a simple development tool without code-size limitations.
Now how about some hardware to mix all these together? Evaluating Kinetis MCUs is made simpler with the modular Tower System development platform. Offering a mix-n-match approach to your development environment, the Tower System lets you customize your designs with an array of peripherals that add next-generation features and functionality. Need more? Rapid prototyping with Freedom development platforms is fun, easy and very low cost. These boards are form-factor compatible with the Arduino™ R3 pin layout, which means you can experience design freedom with a growing set of third-party expansion boards without breaking the bank. For optimum results, select an Arm Mbed development platform variety. This web-based development platform brings an online software development kit, free software libraries, hardware designs and online tools to your fingertips and is the fastest way to create products based on Arm technology.
All the “ingredients” you need and more to get your embedded design based on Kinetis MCUs up and running can be found on the Kinetis Tools and Software page. Bookmark it and use it as a go-to spot to get started.
What will you design today?
Rebecca Phillips is a software and tools product marketer for the Microcontroller Division at NXP.
