IAR announces Kickstart kit for microcontrollers

The range is 100 per cent pin compatible with the NXP LPC13xx Cortex-M3 line and both ranges are supported by the IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM Cortex-M toolchain.

IAR Kickstart Kit for LPC1114 contains all the necessary hardware and software for engineers to quickly design, develop, integrate and test Cortex-M0 applications.

The NXP LPC111x devices are 32-bit MCUs designed for 8/16-bit applications and offer good performance, low power consumption, a simple instruction set and memory addressing, together with small code size.

IAR Kickstart 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, removing the need for any external power supply.

It 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.

IAR Embedded Workbench is an Integrated Development Environment with a complete set of C/C++ cross compiler and debugger tools for professional embedded applications.

It contains project manager, editor, linker and librarian tools, C-Spy debugger and full integration with IAR J-Link - a complete upgrade path available from IAR Systems.

IAR Visualstate is a UML-compliant graphical design environment for reactive systems, with advanced formal verification and validation tools and a powerful code generator.