TI / Luminary Micro's Stellaris® Platforms
TI / Luminary Micro's family of highly integrated Stellaris® Microcontrollers are perfect complementary platforms for InterNiche device networking protocols. With an unparalleled, mature suite of options for development environments and widespread developer familiarity, this family of platforms is the starting point for a very broad range of device designs bringing innovative networking capabilities for real-time applications in motion control, building and industrial automation, fire and security, remote sensing, instrumentation, point-of-sales, and deeply embedded connected systems.
TI / Luminary's products are among the first MCUs in the world to feature a fully-integrated 100 Mbps Ethernet solution with ARM architecture compatibility. These devices combine both the Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical (PHY) layers, marking the first time that integrated connectivity is available with an ARM Cortex-M3 MCU and an integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC and PHY.
InterNiche Network Evaluation Kits (NEKs) are pre-integrated systems of complementary networking technologies that exercise and demonstrate the capability of the Stellaris integrated microcontrollers and can be targeted at different types of networking application profiles. Each NEK that we offer is a fully capable, integrated and optimized networked device application that has been tailored to the interfaces and memory configuration of the specific Stellaris hardware environment.
A typical Stellaris NEK would feature:
- High performance TCP/IPv4 stack
- DHCP or static IP configuration
- SNMP v1 network management agent
- FTP server
- Telnet server
- IGMP support for multicasting
- Virtual File System
- HTTP web server interface
The web server pages typically consist of static and dynamic information displays drawn from the NicheTool internal stack diagnostics and monitoring databases.
For evaluation purposes, for each of these platforms, a run-time image or library is available that has been tested for development tool compatibility and run-time interoperability with the other network and device management components.
