The winter holidays have come early for embedded developers using STM32-family microcontrollers. The announcement of ST’s acquisition of top-3 software-development-tool specialist Atollic, and its promise to make the Atollic high-end TrueSTUDIO-Pro tools available without charge as part of the STM32 ecosystem demonstrates ST’s commitment to continue to deliver the best and most useful embedded portfolio and ecosystem.

对于使用STM32家庭微控制器的嵌入式开发人员来说，冬季假期来得早。ST发布收购世界排行第三的软件开发专业公司Atollic的公告，它承诺将使Atollic TrueStudio Pro高端工具可免费为STM32的生态系统的一部分，并继续提供最好的和最有用的嵌入式组合和生态系统。

ST and Atollic have been partnering for many years. Their close cooperation is epitomized by ST’s status as a Gold partner in the Atollic TrueSTUDIO Partner Program and Atollic’s early participation in the newly launched ST program. This professional relationship has ensured that developers using the STM32 have had access to the effectiveness and efficiency of both TrueSTUDIO-Lite, a free version, and TrueSTUDIO-Pro, the fully featured tool.

ST同Atollic已经合作了很多年。他们的密切合作是由ST公司在Atollic TrueStudio合作伙伴计划和Atollic的早期参与新推出的ST项目的金牌合作伙伴地位的缩影。这种专业关系能确保使用STM32的开发人员能够获得有效芯和效率性提升，无论是TrueSTUDIO Lite（一个免费的工具版本），还是TrueStudio-Pro（功能齐全的工具版本）。

This holiday-season gift for STM32 developers is that those distinctions will disappear. Already, ST’s and Atollic’s engineers have begun work on integrating the features offered in the advanced TrueSTUDIO-Pro into the STM32 ecosystem via a fully integrated software solution, under the TrueSTUDIO banner; this software development tool will be available to STM32 developers free, without charge.

这是给STM32开发者的节日礼物，这些区别将会消失。现在，ST和Atollic的工程师们已经开始将提供先进的生态系统通过STM32 TrueStudio Pro完全集成的软件解决方案的特点，在该TrueStudio旗帜下，这个软件开发工具将免费提供给STM32开发者，免费使用，不收取费用。

STM32 is tops

As the leading provider of Arm® Cortex®-M-core microcontrollers, STM32 MCUs are the most popular family of MCUs among TrueSTUDIO users. Existing licensees of the TrueSTUDIO product will continue to receive their guaranteed support. The next-gen version of TrueSTUDIO will include all of the -Pro version’s advanced features at the -Lite version’s price — Free.

In adding features to ST’s free offerings, in support of embedded developers who operate at that end of the market, ST will continue to promote the value and benefits of its higher-end partners, such as IAR and Keil, whose embedded development tools will continue to offer additional value in features and support.

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