ST7 development kit is comprehensive

25 January 2006 Design Automation

Raisonance's ST7FLITE kit is claimed to be a complete, flexible, and affordable software and hardware development solution for ST7Lite applications. It provides realtime in-circuit debugging and programming capabilities, with all the features needed to allow developers to create, build, and debug ST's MCU-based systems.

The development kit includes the REva evaluation board, the RLink USBbased in-circuit debugger/programmer, and the free RKit-ST7 software.

The REva board itself is an innovative, modular evaluation platform that consists of a generic motherboard with interchangeable daughter boards supporting several target ST7 microcontrollers. The kit includes three daughter boards, for ST7FLITE0, ST7FLITE3, and ST72F264 microcontrollers.

The RLink in-circuit debugger/programmer supports the full range of ST7 Flash microcontrollers. It is connected to the REva for debugging and programming the MCU on the evaluation board. RLink's USB connection is used to power the REva, eliminating the need for a power supply. The RLink also connects to the target ST7 in the application through a standard 10-pin ICC (in circuit communication) interface, using the ST7 ICC protocol.

The RLink and the REva evaluation board are driven by the free RKit-ST7 software (Raisonance Integrated Development Environment), an easy-to-use package based on the proven development environment for the ST6 and uPSD microcontroller families.

RIDE-ST7 features a number of additional innovations to make the development of an ST7 application from scratch faster and easier: in addition to providing seamless integration and graphical controls for the Cosmic and Metrowerks C compilers for ST7, it also includes the RBuilder project-creation 'wizard' for easy peripheral configuration and the display of critical peripheral and ST7 register information. RIDE integrates other tools for ST7 from Raisonance such as a simulator, a macro assembler, a linker and an optional code compressor.

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