Energy Micro is offering a development kit for its ARM Cortex-M3-based EFM32 Giant Gecko microcontrollers, which provides users with full J-Trace and J-Link support.
According to Andreas Koller, v-p sales and marketing at Energy Micro, users will be able to design Cortex-M3 microcontroller based applications without the need for additional debuggers or tools.
“With the built in J-Trace functionality the kit represents real value for money," said Koller.
SEGGER J-Trace and J-Link are available via the USB interface.
"The kit is suitable for the development of applications for portable health and fitness equipment and smart accessories," said Koller.
The development kit (EFM3232GG-DK3750) features a 10x10 BGA112-packaged Giant Gecko microcontroller and includes a 320x240 resistive touch colour TFT display, 16Mbyte NOR-flash memory and 512kbyte PSRAM, MicroSD card support, audio I/O, I2S DAC, a USB port, connectors for an integrated Low Energy UART and a 10/100 Mbit/s SPI based MAC/PHY.
The board includes user switches, LEDs, 5-axis joystick, and debug and trace plugs.
The development kit's display is driven by the microcontroller’s TFT driver which handles updates without CPU intervention. Its USB driver supports fourteen 2kbyte buffered end points and OTG protocol.
A separate backup power domain prevents data loss in battery operated applications.
Additional low energy peripherals include LESENSE for autonomous control of up to 16 sensors, three on-chip op amps, and a 400nA sleep mode with RTC and USB wake-up support.
The EFM32 Giant Gecko microcontroller comes in various configurations and package options, including a new small form factor 7x7mm BGA120.
The MCU family supports speeds up to 48MHz and offers up to 1024kbyte flash memory and 128kbyte RAM memory.
EFM32 microcontrollers are designed for power efficiency with an active current consumption of only 160MA/MHz, deep sleep modes with RTC running at only 400nA and a 20nA shut off mode with GPIO wake-up, with a wake-up time from sleep modes of only 2µs.
The supporting Simplicity Studio software tools suite is free to download
