Luminary Micro Stellaris Microcontroller Products Now Available at Digi-Key

Based in Austin, Tex., Luminary Micro, Inc. designs, markets and sells ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers. Digi-Key is a broad-line distributor of electronic components and accessories and shipping to more than 140 countries, serves a broad range of customers from all sectors of industry.

Luminary Micro's entire product portfolio is available through Digi-Key, encompassing 51 Stellaris microcontrollers, along with compact, versatile and easy-to-use Stellaris evaluation and development kits that provide everything an embedded developer needs to be up and running in 10 minutes or less. The Stellaris family is positioned for cost-conscious applications requiring significant control processing and connectivity capabilities, including motion control, monitoring (remote, fire/security, etc.), HVAC and building controls, power and energy monitoring and conversion, network appliances and switches, factory automation, electronic point-of-sale machines, test and measurement equipment, medical instrumentation, and gaming equipment. In addition to MCUs configured for general-purpose real-time systems, the Stellaris family offers distinct solutions for advanced motion control and energy conversion applications, real-time networking and real-time internetworking, and combinations of these applications including connected motion control and hard real-time networking.

These products are featured in Digi-Key's print and online catalogs and are available for purchase directly from Digi-Key.

We are very excited to have these products available to the thousands of design engineers we serve every day, said Mark Larson, Digi-Key president and COO. With entry-level pricing at a dollar for an ARM technology-based MCU, we are certain that our customers will find the price, performance and features of these products to be compelling.

Arline Nieder, Luminary Micro vice president of sales, added, We are delighted to have Digi-Key in our distribution network, knowing that our customers will appreciate Digi-Key's exceptional service, which includes product availability, same-day shipping and on-time delivery. With our products in stock at Digi-Key, developers around the world now have easy access to the leading-edge technology they crave.