Date: 24/10/2009

ST Micro's low-cost embedded development platform in a USB stick

ST Micro has announced the STM32-comStick, a $69 priced development platform in a USB stick to design embedded devices based on STM32 Connectivity Line microcontrollers.

The microcontrollers supported are STM32F105 and STM32F107 families whose feature support for Ethernet, USB Device/Host/OTG, CAN and audio-class I2S peripherals to the ARM Cortex-M3 core providing low-power 32-bit processing and real-time behavior for embedded system application requiring networking and communications capabilities.

The STM32-comStick includes a full Hitex HiTOP5 IDE/debugger and C compiler, built-in GUI allowing control of the application, and a 72MHz STM32F107VC Connectivity Line MCU with 256 KB Flash memory.

Developers can plug the device directly into a PC USB port to evaluate the MCU communication peripherals and build, program and debug their own applications. No external components, software, or power supply are required.

Also offered are source-code examples demonstrating microcontroller's Ethernet and USB peripherals and the sample applications such as embedded web server running on a TCP/IP protocol stack, a USB Host mass-storage peripheral, and a file system demonstrating file storage functionality.

Availability: Now

For more details visit www.st.com

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