Books and boards: ECN looks at a development board and a DSP book aimed at embedded-system designers.(EMBEDDED SYSTEMS)

ECN-Electronic Component News, December, 2006 by Titus, Jon

ToolStick Starter Kit

(ToolStickSK), Silicon Laboratories, $25. www.silabs.com.

Silicon Labs has produced another helpful small kit that lets you experiment with the company's microcontroller (MCU) architecture. Unlike its earlier sibling, this kit provides a removable 8051F330-based MCU board that offers easy access to the processor's I/O pins. (To use some pins, you must remove a few components from the MCU board.) A ToolStick base module connects a USB port to the MCU board, which you could use to build a small prototype. Frankly, you cannot beat what you get for 25 bucks.

Software tools provided on a CD-ROM include an integrated development environment (IDE), an evaluation assembler, a linker, and a C compiler from Keil Software. The...

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