No. 4, May/June 2009

RLink PRO and Primer Upgrades

Warning: fraudulent offers posted to forums

This past week fraudulent offers for RLink PRO upgrades were made via Raisonance forums. Any upgrade offers that are not from an email address with "@raisonance.com" of from your Raisonance distributor are fraudulent.

Primer, Primer2, RLink and Ride are products of Raisonance. Only Raisonance upgrades assure users of future compatibility with relevant tools and a guaranty of direct support by Raisonance.

Thank you for your support and for buying Raisonance tools.

Highlights

Is There $10,000 in Your STM32 Primer2

Enter the 2009 Primer2 Design Contest to Find Out.

Submit your STM32 Primer2 application for this year's design contest and win from $10,000 in cash and prizes. The online entry form will be open to receive your submission from June 12th to 26th.

On the dedicated site www.stm32circle.com you can find all the information, along with resources to help you develop your application:

• CircleOS 3.7 supporting functionality to enhance your application including SD Card file system, audio, touchscreen, MEMS, Joystick and much more...
• Add-on modules with wrapping area to facilitate your hardware extension
• Sample applications
• Schematics and documentation
• Contest rules and submission details

Join the STM32 circle and win...

Ride and RKit-ARM support NXP Arm core-based MCUs

NXPWorking with NXP ARM7TDMI core-based microcontrollers? Recent releases of Ride7 and RKit-ARM now support a wide range of LPC2xxxx variants so that you can:

• Compile and optimize application code
• Program internal Flash memory with RLink and Ride7 or RFlasher interfaces
• Trouble shoot code while debugging in real time with RLink and Ride7

Supported variants include:

     • LPC210x    • LPC212x    • LPC213x    • LPC214x
     • LPC237x    • LPC238x    • LPC246x

Support of more variants is coming, along with the support of more NXP ARM core-based families.

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Add-on Modules Ease Hardware Extensions for STM32 Primer2

Add-on modules with wrapping area are available for Primer2 users who want to extend the platform with their own hardware design. The modules simplify the extension of the Primer2 hardware by combining a wrapping area with a connector for easy access to peripherals including SPI, I2C, USART and ADC. Boards can be bought in quantity from Raisonance and Raisonance distributors.

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ARM Core-Based Families

New Ride7 & RKit-ARM release

Update your Ride7 and RKit-ARM installations to take advantage of the latest improvements in our ARM software toolset. Notably, recent upgrades to the RKit-ARM tools (version 1.20.09.0154) add support for new STM32 ARM Cortex-M3 based variants and a complete range of NXP LPC2xxx devices. This new version of the toolset also includes improved compilation speed and specific corrections for STM32 Primers and related projects, which are enumerated in the release notes (login required).

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STM8 & ST7 Families

Updates for RKit-STM8 and Ride7

The new version of the STM8/ST7 toolset (version 2.20.09.0139) is now available with several improvements including optimized  compiler performance and support for new STM8L variants. Compiler improvements include:

• Improved results in output code size and speed of execution
• 16-bit x 16-bit - 32 bit multiplication
• Improvements for easier handling of hardware registers
• Improved handling of EEPROM qualified arrays

In addition to these improvements users of the new release benefit from several fixes of known issues. For complete information, refer to the release notes (login required).

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8051

New RKit toolset for 8051

The new version of the RKit 8051 toolset (version 6.4.52) is now available with several improvements and support of new microcontroller variants. New supported devices include a wide range of variants from Silicon Laboratories CF8051xxxx family and Micronas HVC2480A devices. In addition, users of this version benefit from numerous fixes that had not yet been integrated into a formal release. Complete information about these fixes is available in the release notes (login required).

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