Content originally posted in LPCWare by Luis Digital on Sun Oct 09 08:02:43 MST 2011
Quote: halhertani
Finally the STM32 VLDiscovery kit, is nowhere near as user friendly as LPCXpresso kits. Sure they're cheaper but the Atollic Studio lite is nowhere near as easy to use and practical as the LPCXpresso tool. Not to mention the lack of support for linux.......
The STM32 family of micros are decent Cortex-m3 devices with an impressive set of peripherals. But the support that comes with the family I find is lacking.
Just the opinion of a curious person who has played with both STM32 and NXP devices
Although LPCXpresso and Atollic Studio are based on Eclipse, Atollic Studio worse, at least the free version. In addition, each time interrupting the user with advertising messages.
I was making only an evaluation before purchase 100 chips, but decided not to buy even one.
Worst of all is that no IDE for Linux, even CoIDE which is completely free.
How great would that NXP have prices similar to those in ST, would be the bomb.