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MCU Evaluation Kit offers plug-n-play environment

Product News Network, Sept 12, 2005

Based on 32-bit architecture, Advantage Microcontroller Evaluation Kit, Model AME-51, enables product designers to integrate 4060 Series ARM and 4050 Series MCUs into designs. It includes I2C temperature sensor, analog potentiometer tied to ADC, 2 RS-232 connectors, and 7-segment LED. Board allows unlimited number of break points during debug, as well as instantaneous reload of program code to MCU. ROM emulation is achieved using 1 Mb of external SRAM.

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New Fully-Featured AME-51 Evaluation Kit Allows Designers to Quickly Evaluate Oki's 4050/4060 Series Advantage Microcontrollers

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 8 -- Oki Semiconductor, a leading technology partner for the new era of digital communications and convergence, today announced the availability of a low-cost, full-featured evaluation kit for its ARM7TMDI-based 4050/4060 Series Advantage Microcontrollers(TM). At a suggested resale price of $249, Oki's Advantage Microcontroller Evaluation Kit (AME-51) is the lowest priced 'complete-in-one-box' ARM based evaluation solution in the industry. The AME-51 kit enables product designers to easily integrate Oki's 4060 Series -- The World's Smallest ARM -- and 4050 Series MCUs into their designs. Based on ARM's 32-bit architecture, Oki's AME-51 Kit provides designers with a complete and flexible 'plug and play' evaluation environment that is easy to use. This evaluation kit offers designers unique features to shorten the time to market for their products.

Value-Added Customer Benefits and Features

To further address the needs of today's designers of electronic products and devices, Oki's AME-51 Evaluation Board has been designed for modular expansion. All signals from the MCU have been brought to headers on the edge of the board allowing for easy expansion and signal probing. For faster and easier evaluation of the MCU features, the AME-51 Board includes an I2C temperature sensor; an analog potentiometer tied to the ADC; two RS-232 connectors; a seven segment LED; additional user LEDs and pushbutton switches. All MCU system operating modes can be easily configured through convenient on-board switch settings.

A key benefit of Oki's AME-51 Evaluation Board is that it allows an unlimited number of break points during debug, as well as instantaneous reload of the program code to the MCU. This feature overcomes a common limitation of competing products that have insufficient hardware breakpoints, and decreases development time by eliminating the need to reprogram the on-chip flash for each code modification. Commonly known as ROM emulation, this key feature is achieved by making use of the 1MB of external SRAM provided on the AME-51 board and the capabilities of the development tools included in the kit.

Commenting on Oki's AME-51 Evaluation Kit, Dan Beadle, president of Incline Softworks LLC, said, "Thanks to the integrated capabilities of the tools and the AME-51 Board I was able to quickly isolate and correct the errors in my design. The source level debugging combined with the extended target visibility allowed me to keep my focus on solving the problem and not operating the tool."

Taking a leadership position in providing cost-effective ARM-based evaluation solutions, Oki continues to build on the success of its growing line of ARM-based Advantage Microcontrollers and related development solutions, by offering designers an industry-standard MCU platform with strong industry support, including a constantly growing number of off-the-shelf software applications, and a wide variety of tools and software from third-party vendors. Oki's AME-51 Kit was developed as part of its partnership with IAR Systems to meet the needs of its designers who require a low-cost 'plug and play' solution that will enable them to quickly evaluate Oki's 4050/4060 Advantage Microcontrollers for use in their designs.

Oki's AME-51 Kit, which is targeted for designers of electronic consumer, industrial, automotive, medical devices and general embedded systems, contains Oki's modular 4050/4060 Series evaluation board, IAR Systems' software development and debug environment, and full JTAG debug capabilities via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection. It also includes example source code for device peripherals, and Flash-programming tools. Moreover, Oki's AME-51 Board is powered via the USB eliminating the need for a separate power supply. Everything required for evaluation and initial development is included with the AME-51 kit further shortening time to market for product development.

"It was great! I had the system up and running, modified the sample code and watched the LEDs flash on the board the way I wanted them to in about ten minutes. Having everything that I needed included in the box made a significant difference and was a great time saver," Beadle added.

AME-51 Support and Development Tools

Oki's AME-51 Evaluation Kit is compatible with Microsoft Windows and supported by the following industry-leading software development tools provided by IAR Systems:

MCU Evaluation Kit offers plug-n-play environment

Product News Network, Sept 12, 2005

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