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.