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DESIGNERS who wish to utilise MEMS components and sensors
can now boost their time to development with a new licensing program from
STMicroelectronics.
The Open.MEMS program is a free, five-step development
license for one node, which can be obtained in as little as five minutes.
Open.MEMS licensees will have access to drivers, middleware
and application software relating to MEMS components and sensors, beginning
with sensor fusion for 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis
magnetometer, considered vital for many portable and wearable applications.
ST says it will continue to expand the Open.MEMS program
with additional and complementary software libraries, including blocks for
pedometers, tilted compasses, gesture-recognition, activity monitoring and
pedestrian dead reckoning.
The Open.MEMS program is supported by ST’s STM32 Open
Development platform, a prototyping and development platform based on the STM32
ARM Cortex-M processor-core microcontrollers, and integrating a wide range of
other ST components for various sensing, control, connectivity, power, audio
and other functions.
After acquiring an STM32 Nucleo development board and an
STM32 Nucleo Sensor Expansion board, developers only need to download and
install STM32Cube development tools, STM32 Nucleo expansion software and
additional value-libraries.
Once they have agreed to an online, click-through license
agreement, they will quickly receive a unique key for their STM32 Nucleo
development board. Copying the key into the software will automatically unlock
all APIs (application programming interfaces) in each ST value-library, and in
as little as 5 minutes, they can be working on their prototype.