ST joins mbed project

"By joining the mbed project, ST is enabling developers across diverse markets to quickly prototype and create new products based on leading edge STM32 microcontrollers," said Daniel Colonna, ST's microcontrollers marketing director. "The support for mbed will be launched in Q1 2014 with a new line of STM32 microcontroller development boards to provide a consistent way to develop with devices across the STM32 portfolio at hardware and software levels." ARM mbed is a collaborative industry project which delivers free tools and fundamental open source hardware and software building blocks for the rapid development of ARM based devices. The project also enables the easy integration of connectivity, sensor and cloud service software components and the tools and support for a dynamic, collaborative developer and partner ecosystem. "The mbed project is bringing together leading technology companies to create a step change in productivity for embedded device development," said Simon Ford, ARM's director of IoT platforms. "We have learnt from the web and smartphone revolutions that by building an open source software platform with reusable software components and free development and collaboration tools, we can enable the creation of IoT and smart devices on a previously unimagined scale." The first mbed enabled STM32 development boards will be launched in February 2014, with support for other boards and targets to follow.