Press Release

25 Apr 2005

Philips ARM Design Contest

Philips Semiconductors have announced an ARM Design Contest for the following Philips ARM7 devices:

LPC2131, LPC2132, LPC2134, LPC2136, and LPC2138

Register online to receive a Keil MCB2130 Starter Kit (for eligible developers) and pit your design skills against those of your peers. Cash prizes (totaling $15,000) are offered for the best submissions.

The MCB2130 Starter Kit comes with a 16KB code size limited version of the Keil Development Suite for ARM and provides the software components that you need to develop Philips LPC2000 Microcontroller applications:

• Startup code with device-specific configuration, example projects, and pre-configured programming algorithms for the Keil ULINK USB-JTAG Adapter.
• The Keil CARM C Compiler is optimized for the ARM Thumb instruction mode (which offers a 30% code size reduction compared to ARM native mode). The C run-time library, which is coded primarily using Thumb mode, helps the CARM Compiler generate extremely tight program code—an important consideration when using single-chip LPC21xx devices.
• The kit includes the Advanced RTX Real-Time Kernel making this suite a truly complete development system for ARM-based microcontrollers.
• The µVision Debugger provides accurate device simulation that has serious benefits when compared to debugging solutions that rely only on the ARM Embedded ICE. The µVision Simulator provides unlimited breakpoints and allows timing analysis of software algorithms. This is essential for software debugging of single-chip designs or hardware with only Flash memory since the Embedded ICE has limited capabilities on such systems.

Don't miss the opertunity and register for the design contest on the
Circuit Cellar Web Site.

About Philips Semiconductors

Philips Semiconductors, headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, employs over 33,000 employees in more than 50 countries. With sales of around EURO 4.9 billion in 2003, Philips Semiconductors is one of the world's top semiconductor suppliers. We want to be the leading provider of semiconductor-based solutions for connected consumer and communications applications. See http://www.philips.com/ for more information.

About Keil Software

Keil Software is the most widely-used vendor of 8/16-bit embedded development tools and is represented world-wide in more than 40 countries. Keil Software makes C compilers, macro assemblers, real-time kernels, debuggers, simulators, integrated development environments, JTAG debug hardware, and evaluation boards for the ARM, 8051, 251, and C16x/XC16x/ST10 microcontroller families. More information including evaluation software, product updates, application notes, example code, and technical support is available from www.keil.com.