Post by thread:[ARM] TI Acquires Luminary

This was in my inbox, it seems natural since Luminary Micro is located in the great state of Texas already. Dear Stellaris customer, Today, TI has announced the acquisition of Luminary Micro and our Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers... etc etc... -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Bob Blick <spam_OUTbobblickTakeThisOuTftml.net> wrote: > This was in my inbox, it seems natural since Luminary Micro is located > in the great state of Texas already. > > Dear Stellaris customer, > > Today, TI has announced the acquisition of Luminary Micro > and our Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based > microcontrollers... etc etc... > This is definitely interesting. I was telling the local TI people that their Cortex M3 offering is vaporware and I am not interested in MSP430 or their DSCs the other day. Now they have real Cortex M3 part. Still I think the ST offerings of STM32 are more complete. By the way, the [ARM] tag is kind of dead. Maybe [EE] helps. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com

On May 14, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> TI has announced the acquisition of Luminary Micro >> > This is definitely interesting. Indeed. It gives TI and exceptionally broad range of ARM chips. 20 to 600Mhz... Nice to see them get some embedded ethernet controllers, too. BillW

I tried a few times to buy Luminary Micro's ARM (28 pin dip) to play around, but wasn't bothered enough. There were some nice designs in Circuit Cellar constest a few years ago. Googled and found this www.luminarymicro.com/about_luminary/microchip_lawsuit_faq.html "On April 10, 2006, Microchip (MCHP) filed a lawsuit against Luminary Micro (6) claiming that Luminary Micro's 28-pin StellarisR series of ARMR CortexT-M3 32-bit microcontrollers infringe three of Microchip's patents." The lawsuit is about : 'Microcontroller having an n-bit data bus width with less than n I/O pins' etc and therefore only against the 28pin range. Interesting page. Lawyers. Yuk!