Luminary Micro, Inc. designs, markets, and sells ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers for energy, security, and connectivity markets. It offers mixed-signal microcontrollers for motion control, industrial automation, medical, transportation, appliance, and security and access applications. The company also provides evaluation kits, development kits, and reference design kits. It offers stepper motor modules, AC induction motor modules, brushless DC motor modules, brushed DC motor controller modules, serial-to-Ethernet modules, intelligent display modules with PoE and Ethernet, intelligent display modules with landscape display, and 10-pin to 20-pin JTAG adapter modules. The company also provides Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library for controlling the peripherals found on the Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers; Stellaris Graphics Library, a set of graphics primitives and a widget set for creating graphical user interfaces on Stellaris microcontroller-based boards that have a graphical display; Stellaris USB Library, a sub-set of USB functions simplify embedded USB control; Code Samples, a code to use ARM Cortex-M3 platform with a set of sample applications; Stellaris In-System Programming Support; and Stellaris IEC 60730 Support, a test library to support its customers in class B certification process. It offers its products through a network of representatives in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific Rim, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of May 14, 2009, Luminary Micro, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Texas Instruments Inc.
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