Ti Stellaris LaunchPad

Last week two of these arrived at my doorstep. It's the newly launched Texas Instruments Stellaris LaunchPad.

I pre-ordered directly from Ti a few months ago. https://estore.ti.com/Stellaris-LaunchPad.aspx


Specs from Ti.com:

The Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad Evaluation Kit includes the following items:

• Stellaris LaunchPad Evaluation board (EK-LM4F120XL)
• USB Micro-B plug to USB-A plug cable
• ReadMe First quick-start guide

The Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad evaluation board offers these features:

• Stellaris LM4F120H5QR microcontroller
• USB Micro-B connector for device
• RGB user LED
• Two user switches (application/wake)
• Onboard Stellaris® In-Circuit Debug Interface (ICDI)
• Available I/O brought out to headers on a 0.1" grid
• Switch-selectable power sources:
  • ICDI
  • USB device
• Reset switch
• Preloaded RGB quickstart application
• Supported by StellarisWare® software, including the USB library and the peripheral driver library
• Stellaris® LM4F120 LaunchPad BoosterPack XL interface, with stackable headers to expand the capabilities of the Stellaris® LaunchPad development platform

The EK-LM4F120XL works with StellarisWare, as well as several different software tool chains, including:

• Keil
• Sourcery CodeBench
• IAR Tools
• CodeComposer Studio

The LM4F120H5QR that the launchpad uses is an 80Mhz 32bit Arm Cortex M4 with floating point and 256KB Flash / 32KB SRAM / 2KB EEPROM. It also includes dual 12-bit ADC, 6x64-bit and 6-32-bit timers and many serial comms. (From the back of the box.)

Here are some pictures:

Outside packaging

Nice note inside with the USB cable

Contents

LaunchPad powered, with default code, blinking RGB LED

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