RTOS and compiler gain debug support

iSystem winIDEA software has been adapted to provide an integrated debugging solution for the development of advanced products based on off-the-shelf MQX RTOS and MetaWare compiler products.

MQX Embedded, a division of ARC International focused on the software needs of embedded system developers, and iSystem, a manufacturer of emulation and debugging tools, today announced that the iSystem winIDEA software has been adapted to provide an integrated debugging solution for the development of advanced products based on off-the-shelf MQX RTOS (real-time operating system) and MetaWare compiler products.

Embedded systems engineers have long desired the ability to view their applications running with an RTOS via their in-circuit emulators (ICEs).

To make this possible, iSystem and MQX Embedded collaborated on a dramatically enhanced debugging capability for MQX RTOS-based applications.

The newly optimised winIDEA software will help reduce application development time for customers using the MQX RTOS and MetaWare compiler products, thereby reducing time to market for the companies' mutual customers.

The MQX RTOS is a popular, high performance, small footprint and royalty-free RTOS that supports most 32bit processors including ARC, ARM, ColdFire and PowerPC.

The MQX RTOS is designed to be easy to configure to balance code size with performance requirements; alternative settings can be selected, benchmarked and iterated to optimise cost and performance.

The MetaWare High C/C++ compiler delivers compact, fast, efficient code with superior optimisation on leading 32bit architectures such as ARC, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, VideoCore and XScale.

iSystem's winIDEA is a powerful integrated development environment, consisting of a project manager, a third-party tools integrator, a multi-file source editor and a high-level source debugger.

It works with all iSystem's development systems.

winIDEA is easy to learn, increases productivity and speeds up the development cycle.

winIDEA now implements MQX RTOS v2.50 object browsing.

It displays kernel parameters, synchronisation, I/O, interrupts, tasks, MQX RTCS TCP/IP stack and more.

winIDEA also displays the full context of any task while on stop mode: current execution point, stack position and contents, CPU registers, call stack, local variables and watches.

Joel Mattox, Director of Marketing of MQX Embedded, said: "By working with a leading provider of advanced debugging technology, customers utilising iSystems products and the MQX RTOS and MetaWare compiler will benefit by realising reduced development time and time to market".

"This new, tightly integrated interface between our emulators, debuggers and the MQX RTOS will be welcomed by our mutual customers and new prospects alike", said Helmut Kindermann, iSystem's CEO.

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