If you’ve been coveting a piece of Texas Instruments hardware you should put in an order before September 30th. A coupon code for $25 off a purchase was posted to the Stellaris ARM Community forums and it should work until that date. Above is the overview of an order placed yesterday for two Tiva Launchpads (apparently TI has rebranded the Stellaris chips as Tiva for some odd reason). After applying the coupon code “National-1yr” the total price of [BravoV’s] order is just under one dollar (including shipping). The coupon code can be entered into a box on the right hand column of step #3 (payment) when placing an order.
UPDATE: There are now multiple comments reporting that the coupon code no longer works.
We’re pretty sure you can use this coupon code on anything in the TI store. But if you don’t have a Stellaris/Tiva Launchpad yet we highly recommend getting one. We picked ours up about a year ago. It’s a great way to try your hand at ARM programming. We have had some issues with how the breakout headers are organized — there’s some gotchas with multiple pins being connected (read the last five paragraphs of the project write up linked in this post for more). But for the price and ease of programming this will get you up and coding in no time. If you need some ideas of what to do with the board look at our posts tagged as “Stellaris”.
[Thanks Vlad]
I got a Hecules Launchpad RM42 for free using the coupon code :D
How did you order anything from that website when on the checkout page it asks for information about your business? But I don’t own any business.
i am stuck on the same infomation about business url
I put my website there.
“Self” for me…
Just enter N/A and continue with your order!
shipping free for india also??
Yes!
Just placed my order.
appears to work on anything…just bought some wireless modules for free. The order is still ‘pending payment verification’ though, so we will see
Same here, pending payment authorization on a Stellaris LM4F120 and a Tiva C series board.
I ordered the launchpads, yet i’m very skeptical of the orders actually being fulfilled. I believe this will end just like the Razer coupon “craze”.
Don’t be. It was working till now, can’t say how long will it work. I got 3 launchpads (Tiva, Piccolo, Stellaris) for around $4 including shipping. (Total was around $29)
RE: ” (apparently TI has rebranded the Stellaris chips as Tiva for some odd reason)”
As I understand it, the Tiva C series is Cortex-M4 based, whereas the Stellaris line is Cortex-M3 based. TI’s M4 implementation doesn’t include an Ethernet MAC, whereas some of the Cortex-M3 based Stellaris parts do. The Cortex-M4 adds some DSP instructions and the option for a FPU.
Stellaris was a beta/pre-production line. Changes to the architecture and a new release they decided to change the name. Also rumor that there was some trademark issues.
By the way, there is still Stellaris Lauchpad available (sme as Tiva board but with a different SKU of chips. So brand name atleast they are still holding)
Definitely beta: There’s a few warnings in the more recent Stellaris datasheet that says to switch to the Tiva if any of the known issues affects you. Something about NVRam not lasting as long as it should I think?
No, there was a Cortex-M4 LM4F line, as found in the first stellaris launchpad (worse, the stellaris launchpad have LX4F120, engineering samples). it’s actually the same chips as the TM4F123.
the TM4F is intended to have less silicon bugs. the original stellaris had loads of them, including the inability to write anything in the eeprom (not flash).
What…? I bought two when they had the first deal.. what the hell?
Nope. All of the existing Stellaris parts have been re-branded under the Tiva name.
According to a source at TI, the only reason for the name change was that many Southeast Asians had difficulties pronouncing “Stellaris.”
What’s so hard about pronouncing “Sterralis”? ;) I bet they change the name because they didn’t like the “staunchpad” nickname.
I just ordered a CC3000 BoosterPack for $10.29. Pretty cool!
Their website is SLOW…
News is spreading…
Works. tyvm.
They brought the cart down. aww.
“You are no longer allowed to use this coupon.”
From checkout , dont bother.
“Coupon accepted” & “There is no charge for your item(s). Click Next below to review and complete your order”
Order went through just fine as well and received an order confirmation email, so it’s still working as of now.
I disagree, it just accepted it when I tried.
I received that same message, but it was still applied.
Update:
My cart crashed on screen 3. It took like 25 mins for it to lag threw. Eventually it gave me some stern talk that the server experienced an issue.
Tried again , wouldnt accept it.
A day later I got a conf email for my order. (just now)
Not sure what happened exactly perhaps a cs rep fixed it :) But definitely worth trying.
The shop seems very slow and spit out an error after the order process. But theres a confirmation-mail, so we’ll see…
Free stuff is always good…
yea i got an error too my first time through, but as far as I can tell everything is good.
The checkout page returns an error…
Says coupon code is already in use. Lame!
This code was sent to people who hade National Semiconductor accounts. Apparently it has been one year since Ti bought them.
The TI Store took my coupon, 0.00 due, but the server is so overloaded I have re-trying for 30 minutes
Worked for me too…but yeah the server is extremely slow and errored out a couple times. But I got the confirmation email.
Indeed, the server is serving too many people trying to get things for free D:
(BTW I’m trying too)
I got to order one of both Stellaris and Tiva C Launchpads…
“Processing – Waiting to Ship”
Damn it I love TI EVMs!
Don’t be surprised to see same board :)
I know, I just didn’t need two Tiva C LPs…
LOL
Oh wait, I’m an idiot. Wish I bought another Tiva C D:
Yes, after about an hour of re-submitting, my order went through, Got two Tiva C’s.
Just worked for me… Looks like their e-store is having some sort of techical trouble
Order Date: 9/18/2013 12:37 PM Order Total: $0.98 Balance: $0.98
Status: Order Placed, Payment Authorized Payments: $0.00 Unprocessed Payments: $0.98
Worked for me a few minutes ago.
only took hour at checkout to get order processed
The Stellaris chips were taken down and relaunched as Tiva after they fixed the memory problems in the Stellaris ;)
almost had it….trying again. Just in time too, I’m starting to dive into micro-controllers. bought and arduino uno on e-bay. Never hurts to know something you can’t do.
thx for the tip
So, this isn’t tideals.com ?
check the order status if you get stuck. Looks like mine is ordered! Cool! Launchpad eval kit. Let the spark and smoke start flying!
There is a difference between the old stellaris launchpad and the tiva launchpad, PWM has been added to the tiva. Otherwise both systems are identical, the tiva software will work with the stellaris and vise versa (with exception of stellaris software not having a clue what PWM is and the PWM demos from the tiva software not working)
oh and a few fixes to hardware issues in the stellaris (genuine faults)
Just placed my order, it still works! takes a long time though.
I kept getting an error while processing CC for balance due (last step). PayPal was nice and fast. Just FYI…
Great googly moogly, that’s an awful website. Even if the performance wasn’t taking a hit from all us hackers, it’s 1995-era web tech and just plain drab and awful.
Coupon code worked for me, but the website is really bogged down. The checkout process threw an error — hoping my order went through.
There entire store webpage is running slow! There must be a lot of people trying to get free things.
i get coupon codes from them all the time (for work i buy tons of there modules) but they all appear to be individual … dunno how he got this … but im abusing it XD
I’ve been trying for 3 hours, always getting a server error on steps 3 or 4 of checkout. It will apply the coupon, error out, and empty my cart. So frustrating. Me wants free goodies!
Gaahh! Now it’s saying I can’t use the code! Hours of producitvity lost, spent trying to get free stuff. Kinda ironic, methinks.
TI website is going dooown!
Too bad, they probably ran out of the boards: “You are no longer allowed to use this coupon.” Or is it a problem with me for some reason?
I get the same message, “You are no longer allowed to use this coupon” ;( Guess they noticed too many people were using the code.
The coupon is limited to one use per account.
Doesn’t work anymore. Wish I hadn’t been in class…
Worry not, Dan! The fact that you were in class means that you’ll eventually be more able to buy things from the TI store without a coupon!
Great! Hopefully I’ll be getting my FREE piccolo development board in the mail soon.
As a side note, the website is obviously under considerable load.
It seems this coupon is no longer valid. just tried it and it said i “can no longer use this coupon.” the ti site is very slow and i had to reload several pages more than once, but it appears someone made a mistake and they have corrected it.
doesn’t work for me
It was working for me, but I had to refresh the site so many times and it gave me a similar error to everyone else. I bet it’s one use per customer.
Will everyone please stop pounding this TI website when I am trying to buy things ;-)
Yeah…just spent about half an hour fighting the site to get to the point where I could enter the coupon code and it won’t take it.
think we broke it…:(
Yep, the coupon has been used up!!! Just tried it and received the message “Can no longer use this coupon” bummer man
Well I got to it after it expired… as usual hmph
Same story here. I also missed out on the TI watch deal. Oh well…
Doesn’t work any more.
You are no longer allowed to use this coupon.
Thanks Ti! (in case you’re reading this): I’ve prepared a “booster pack” for your DDC118 A/D converter. Getting three Stellaris Launchpads for free enables me to give a few dev kits to some of my friends!
i was too late lol i got You are no longer allowed to use this coupon.
Shame, seems that coupon code no-longer works :(
“You are no longer allowed to use this coupon”
Ditto… what a waste.
Damn, I wanted it so much, but I was too late… ='(
Its now only for tenured accounts. If you havent had an account before this week, its not working. Glad I got my two in :D
Nope – my account is a couple of years old, not working for me either. Bummer! :(
My account is a couple of years old as well. Didn’t work for me either. Oh well. Would’ve liked that Hercules board. Only thing stopping me was the anemic GPIO. Only 8 in that configuration??
My account has some years too, and I’ve purchased and received free samples in the past, but it didn’t work for me. I wanted a TI Chronos so I could make a REM sleep detector.
Thanks anyways, too bad I didn’t wake up early enough to get in on this. =)
You are no longer allowed to use this coupon.
I cry…..