Fwd: New Stellaris LM4F120 Launchpad Dev boards @ $5 Each

[Damien P]

This looks like a pretty neat board.  I don't know what the dev tools are like.  Given that I haven't touched my STM32 Discovery board yet, I'll give this a miss for now.

I hope one day you'll be able to "apt-get install gcc-arm-bare-metal" and say "gcc-arm-none-eabi -mstellaris-discovery" and be able to build stuff for just about any ARM chip.

On Monday, September 3, 2012 10:46:48 AM UTC+9:30, Brendan Halliday wrote:

Just FYI for anyone who's interested, TI are currently selling the new Stellaris LM4F120 Launchpad Dev boards for $5 each, with free shipping (even to Australia.)

Given the chip (LM4F120E5QR) is worth more than that board as far as I can tell, it's a great deal.

Basic Specs as follows:
The chip has 256KB of flash memory, 32KB of SRAM, 12 ADC ports, up to 43 GPIO ports and a large list of supported interfaces.

You can grab them at http://www.ti.com/tool/ek-lm4f120xl

Cheers,
Brendan/nogthree
HSBNE Secretary

[Damien P]

Here's another ARM board that looks interesting.  This one is supposed to have good software to program with (like the Arduino) but with on-chip debugging too:

http://kck.st/Tt4VpR