New-Tech Europe Digital Magazine | May 2016

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Expand Ecosystem with New Development Boards to Accelerate Embedded Design STMicroelectronics has released entry-level, mid-range, and high- end development boards for the latest members of its STM32F7 microcontroller series , which are now entering volume production with up to 2Mbyte of on-chip Flash memory and peripherals that help create rich user interfaces. STM32F7 Microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics Expand Ecosystem with New Development Boards to Accelerate Embedded Design Providing timely support for design starts, the new development tools include a low-cost STM32 Nucleo-144 board featuring the STM32F767 variant. Also available is a Discovery Kit supporting the STM32F769, which has TFT-LCD and MIPI®-DSI support. In addition, there are highly featured evaluation boards for the STM32F769 and the STM32F779, which has a cryptographic accelerator for security-conscious applications. The evaluation boards and Discovery Kit also come with a 4-inch QWVGA 800×400 MIPI-DSI display featuring a capacitive touchscreen. Developers using the STM32F7 hardware platforms can take advantage of extensive software support that comprises the STM32CubeMX initialization tool and STM32CubeF7 embedded software package including Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and middleware components like the FreeRTOS real-time operating system, USB library, and lwIP

complex and cumbersome coding. View a short, informative video demonstration of MHGC:. MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer takes care of all configuration requirements as well as generating all source code needed for a professional-looking GUI. Users can easily import images and fonts and add them into projects via MHGC’s intuitive, user- friendly interface. The tool gives the user the ability to add, delete, move, scale and configure objects within the application. Objects can be interactive, including sliders, dials and buttons without the developer needing to understand graphics code. “The response from customers has been very positive,” continued Hoefle. “Wehave found the feedback invaluable and created a platform that we believe our customers will find simple, professional and intuitive.” MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer is integrated with Microchip’s MPLAB X and utilizes the graphics libraries in MPLAB Harmony. The software is available now for download by visiting: http:// www.microchip.com/harmony

of quality, and the next-generation Virtuoso platform does just that. The new platform also enables us to improve designer productivity and effectiveness to ensure that our teams can meet aggressive time-to- market goals.”

Microchip Announces Graphical User Interface Composer Tool for MPLAB® Harmony MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer Allows Engineers to Easily Develop and Design Professional-Looking Graphical User Interfaces Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash- IP solutions, today announced the MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Composer (MHGC), a modern and flexible graphical user interface (GUI) composer tool. MHGC is a free development tool for developing GUIs for all PIC32 microcontrollers through Microchip’s Harmony Configurator and MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The software allows anyone to create branded content using the Harmony Graphics Library, in conjunction with their custom assets, to create GUIs in a What-You-See-is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) design model, without

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