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News Release from: Cyan Technology | Subject: CyanIDE 1.2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 October 2005
Environment accelerates 16bit MCU
configuration
The latest release of the CyanIDE integrated development environment enables users to configure their design for either of Cyan's eCOG1k and uCOG1m low power 16bit microcontrollers.
The latest release of Cyan's patented CyanIDE integrated development environment (IDE) enables users to configure their design for either of Cyan's eCOG1k and uCOG1m low power 16bit microcontrollers Version 1.2 of CyanIDE is part of Cyan's on-going strategy to maintain a single IDE for its expanding microcontroller range, thereby offering flexibility and cost-savings to the designer
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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CyanIDE 1.2, which is free and downloadable, also enables individual peripherals to be locked to the currently selected port, while allowing the others to float.
The combination of CyanIDE and the microcontrollers' peripheral configurator enables the engineer to produce the optimum device pin selection to a given design.
The ability to lock any peripheral in place ensures that this configuration may be preserved across future designs.
This feature is ideal, for example, for making enhancements to an existing product or for brainstorming new product variants.
The benefit of CyanIDE and the associated Cyan microcontrollers is the ease by which their memory and peripherals can be configured.
With a conventional microcontroller it can take many weeks to configure the on-chip peripherals and memory, often longer than the time taken to write the core application software.
In fact many microcontrollers have documentation running to 300 or 400 pages but devote only 25 pages or so to the core, the rest concerns peripheral and memory configuration.
Used with Cyan's innovative on-chip port configurator, CyanIDE enables each peripheral to be configured very quickly for a particular application using a simple "drag and drop" facility.
In many instances this means that only one microcontroller is required to cover a number of different applications or features, the configuration of the microcontroller being changed in software at the time of testing.
Thus time to market can be shortened significantly and upgrades or modifications can be made very quickly.
CyanIDE also uses a "drag and drop" process for graphically configuring the MMU (memory management unit) whereby memory translation units are dragged and dropped on to a pictorial representation of the memory map.
Logical and physical base addresses are entered and the segment size is selected from a drop down box.
(Cache mode configuration can also be set up).
CyanIDE then automatically generates all the startup code necessary to use the selected MMU configuration.
CyanIDE, including a full ANSI C-compiler with no time or code restrictions, is free and available as a download from Cyan's website or on CD-ROM.
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