Table 3—The StarterKit Plus kits are specifically designed for one of the microcontrollers featured in the design contest. The kits comes complete with a development environment including a programmer and all the necessary cables (requires a USB port).
| SKP | Microcontroller | Pins | Code flash memory | Data flash memory | SRAM |
| '8Cmini-13 | R8C/Tiny | 32 | 16 KB | 4 KB | 1 KB |
| '16C28 | M16C/Tiny | 80 | 96 KB | 4 KB | 8 KB |
| '16C62P | M16C/60 | 100 | 384 KB | 4 KB | 31 KB |
| '32C83 | M16C/80 | 144 | 512 KB | 31 KB |