Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B
by elsjaako on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @06:05PM
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How many MCUs have the same strong, libre toolchain?
Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B
by nascentmind on Thursday September 24, 2015 @05:48AM
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Free GCC tool chains are present for the TI MSP430, TI Tiva Series C (Cortex M4) and also TI Hercules (Cortex M3) series. Apart from that I have tried STM32F4 series with GCC tool chains.
I have personally developed Bluetooth stack using the GCC tools for the MSP430 using the CC246x Bluetooth modules and it was a blast.
So you have a lot of options with free tool chains. I personally use only free toolchains on linux. It is the best development setup and you have a lot of options for debugging and tool development.
Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B
by meragrin on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:09AM
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Are there any which are easily used breadboard style project?
Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B
by wanderingjew on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:37AM
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NXP's (and now Freescale's) LPC1100 are ARM Cortex M0 processors available in DIP packages. IIRC, NXP is the only one making DIP ARMs, but breakout boards exist....
Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B
by hga on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:48AM
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There are indeed a bunch of them. Here's the ones STM provides: http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532
At the company I work for, we've replaced all the Atmega chips in our products with the STM32F0 series chips for lower-end requirements and with STM32F4 series for higher end stuff, because they have more grunt and generally have more peripherals, and are similar prices.