Texas Instruments is set to release a LaunchPad development board for their Stellaris Cortex M4 based DSPs. The release date is set for 25th of September. If your register on their site, you’ll have the ability to pre-order these boards for $5. The cheapie dev-boards just keep on coming.
“The cheapie dev-boards just keep on coming.”
Along with Cheezy videos :)
Is there any more information about this launchpad available? For example at which speed the controller will run?
Yes, the specs are leaked…
http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/stellaris_arm_cortex-m3_microcontroller/f/471/p/207944/738978.aspx#738978
The chip is a LM4F120H5QRFIG according to this. Runs at (up to?) 80MHz.
Good video!! But nothing in comparison with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IyPz3zPb7U&feature=player_embedded :D Brett novak is the man.
How many will they let you pre-order?
Alot of uptodate news on the Stellaris launchpad at the Stellaris Forums, including specs
http://forum.stellarisiti.com/topic/164-new-stellaris-launchpad/
THANKS LAUNCHPAD!! ZOWIE! (man, this is a joke…)
Good to see them officially acknowledge GCC as a supported toolchain. Hopefully their sample code and support libraries don’t need anything beyond a standard ARM binutils and GCC unlike some other Cortex vendors I could name.
This ^ exactly. Nothing more frustrating than finding out that if you want to use all the Flash, RAM or peripherals that you need to pay for a compiler.
So I don’t really get this marketing strategy. Get our attention, and tease us about a new product, but then don’t tell us anything about it. Do I want one? How TF would I know? Will I remember to check back in 30 days? Probably not. Many vendors are like this; I get new product announcements from Maxim and then find there is no stock, and no pricing information available. You got my attention, and then lost it; will you ever get my attention back on that product again in the future? Probably only by chance.
I understand the bit about brand marketing, but if TI’s goal is to get design wins for their new parts, how about you tell us WTF the parts do and cost at the time you spent your marketing dollars getting my attention?
Firstly, it’s $4.99 if you pre-order… not a huge $$ commitment. The specs have been leaked (see earlier comments). And you’re signing up for a chance to get one for free even (and, as I understand it, be reminded to pre-order, after the specs are announced).
Well.. it did get your attention.. All the specs are here :
http://forum.stellarisiti.com/topic/164-new-stellaris-launchpad/#entry478
They took down the eStore link yesterday. Someone luckily took a screenshot
I’m concerned because some of the comments talk about PWM being missing?
Sounds like they will be making up their lost money by selling add on peripherals to complete the board?
Why the secrecy?