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Software Development
This chapter provides general information on software development as well as instructions for
Flash memory programming.
Software Description
The StellarisWare® software provided with the Stellaris® LaunchPad provides access to all of the
peripheral devices supplied in the design. The Stellaris® Peripheral Driver Library is used to
operate the on-chip peripherals as part of StellarisWare®.
StellarisWare® includes a set of example applications that use the StellarisWare® Peripheral
Driver Library. These applications demonstrate the capabilities of the LM4F120H5QR
microcontroller, as well as provide a starting point for the development of the final application for
use on the Stellaris® LaunchPad evaluation board.
Source Code
The complete source code including the source code installation instructions are provided at
www.ti.com/stellaris-launchpad
. The source code and binary files are installed in the DriverLib
tree.
Tool Options
The source code installation includes directories containing projects and/or makefiles for the
following tool-chains:
Keil ARM RealView® Microcontroller Development System
IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM
Sourcery CodeBench
Texas Instruments' Code Composer Studio™ IDE
Download evaluation versions of these tools from www.ti.com/stellaris. Due to code size
restrictions, the evaluation tools may not build all example programs. A full license is necessary to
re-build or debug all examples.
Instructions on installing and using each of the evaluation tools can be found in the Quickstart
guides (for example, Quickstart-Keil, Quickstart-IAR) which are available for download from the
evaluation kit section of our web site at
www.ti.com/stellaris
.
For detailed information on using the tools, see the documentation included in the tool chain
installation or visit the web site of the tools supplier.
Programming the Stellaris LaunchPad Evaluation Board
The Stellaris® LaunchPad software package includes pre-built binaries for each of the example
applications. If you installed StellarisWare® to the default installation path of C:\StellarisWare, you
can find the example applications in “C:\StellarisWare\boards\ek-lm4f120xl”. The on-board
Stellaris ICDI is used with the Stellaris LM Flash Programmer tool to program applications on the
Stellaris® LaunchPad.
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