Boston, MA - P&E Microcomputer Systems announces the release of the DEMOQE128 development board, a low-cost development system designed for demonstrating, evaluating, and debugging the Freescale MC9S08QE128 and MCF51QE128 microcontrollers. P&E’s Multilink circuitry is embedded onto the DEMOQE128 board so that it can be powered, programmed, and debugged via USB from the PC. An optional BDM port is provided to allow use of an external BDM interface such as P&E’s Cyclone PRO automated programmer or USB Multilink.

Boston, Massachusetts - P&E has released a suite of development tools for Freescale's 68RS08 family of microcontrollers. With this launch, P&E now offers products to take an RS08 project from development to production, including the DEVRS08KA2 low-cost development board and P&E's popular Cyclone PRO.

In addition to the DEVRS08KA2 development board, P&E has also launched the ICDRS08 In-Circuit Debugger, PROG08 Flash/EEPROM Programmer, WinIDERS08 Development Envirionment, and a package which combines the USB-ML-12E USB Multilink BDM Interface with the RS08 debugger, programmer, and IDE. The package also includes an RS08 simulator and register files.

The RS08 family of microcontrollers are reduced-core versions of the S08 architecture, designed with a focus on very small and highly portable embedded devices.

Boston, Massachusetts - P&E Microcomputer Systems announces the release of the powerful but cost-effective $99 ColdFire MCF5213 Development Kit. This kit includes the DEV5213CF evaluation board, which features an embedded P&E USB to BDM interface. The embedded interface provides for easy debug and FLASH programming of the resident ColdFire MCF5213 processor. The resident MCF5213 device is a 32-bit ColdFire processor which incorporates 256KB of flash, 32KBytes of ram, ADC, QSPI, PWMs, timers, a PLL, I2c, QSPI, and more. The processor runs at a system clock speed of up to 80MHZ, with 76MIPS of performance.

The 64K Starter Edition of the P&E’s PKGCFZPRO software development package is also incorporated into the MCF5213 kit. This software suite provides user with the capability to compile, debug, and flash program up to 64KB of user C code. This software suite includes the P&E In-Circuit Debugger, Flash Programmer, and WinIDE integrated environment, with a built-in GCC Compiler. The 64K Starter Edition also includes a sample template project to give you a jump start on an interrupt driven firmware design.

Boston, Massachusetts - P&E Microcomputer Systems has expanded its offering of 68HC908 development kits, with the addition of five new kits. Each new kit features a development board with one of Freescale's 68HC908EY16, -GR8, -GZ60, -SR12, or -QY4 processors, and a standard MON08 header. The kits also include a USB-to-target MON08 interface (USB-ML-MON08) and P&E's PKG08SZ software package.

P&E also announced plans to offer development boards and kits featuring the -AP64, -GT16, -KX8, -MR8, -QC16 in the near future.