STMicroelectronics hopes to widen the
use of its ARM Cortex-M3 based STM32 microcontrollers with a
development environment including debug probe with an entry price
of just $21.
The environment combines the Atollic TrueSTUDIO/STM32
development tool, which can be downloaded free-of-charge with no
limitations on code size or usage time, and ST’s ST-LINK debug
probe to connect to the target via USB.
Atollic TrueSTUDIO/STM32 uses the Eclipse Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) framework, and features a GNU compiler/debugger
for ARM processors.
Pre-compiled runtime libraries are also included in the
free-of-charge Lite version of the tool.
More capabilities can be added by buying the more comprehensive
Atollic TrueSTUDIO/STM32 Pro, which includes C++ language support,
PC-based build/debug tools allowing development before embedded
hardware is available, graphical tools including UML diagram
editors, and collaboration features such as version control and
bug/task management.
The ST-LINK debug probe is priced at $21.
Atollic TrueSTUDIO/STM32 can be downloaded at
a price of €995 for TrueSTUDIO/STM32 Pro, or free of charge for
TrueSTUDIO/STM32 Lite.