MCU development environment spreads its scope

CyanIDE 2 breaks the bounds of the microcontroller, extending the benefits of configurability and ease of use to the board level.

Cambridge-based fabless semiconductor company Cyan has developed a new generation of its popular CyanIDE integrated development environment.

CyanIDE 2 breaks the bounds of the microcontroller, extending the benefits of configurability and ease of use to the board level.

CyanIDE 2 provides support for a portfolio of external peripherals which will enable user modification of Cy-Solved solutions at the system level.

Using CyanIDE 2 greatly reduces time to market, simplifies product prototyping, reduces the development cost associated with embedded application software and provides automated portability between members of the Cyan microcontroller family of devices.

Driven by future Cy-Solved products and customer requirements, Cyan will continue to extend the libraries of external peripherals with each new release.

CyanIDE 2, with extended capabilities remains free for download without usage restrictions.

The easy to use graphical system delivers not only the basic editing, project management, code building and debugging elements, but also system configuration, optimised automatic code generation and a high level abstracted peripheral driver framework.

Bringing these elements together in the Graphical Configurator of CyanIDE 2, users can focus on design at the system level, selecting devices external to the core microcontroller in combination with the peripherals that are internal to the selected Cyan microcontroller.

Previous releases of CyanIDE were based on a proprietary C compiler and IDE technology.

CyanIDE 2 embraces the popular industry standard Eclipse platform and GCC based toolchain.

Eclipse enables Cyan to introduce a new extended feature IDE with the stability of a widely used industry standard tool set.

CyanIDE always offered automated code generation and easy peripheral configuration.

CyanIDE 2 has evolved to support a design flow that introduces the concept of "design warnings".

During system design, immediate feedback is given highlighting areas of a design that may give cause for concern.

Substantial system design intelligence has been built into CyanIDE 2.

Other new features include improvements such as the ability to debug more than one connected embedded target from the same IDE simultaneously.

"Developing an embedded application using a traditional IDE is typically very knowledge intensive, time consuming and error prone", explains Stephen Page, Software Group Manager at Cyan.

"Often the most expensive R and D component of modern product cost is in the development of the application software and ongoing maintenance of that software".

"The desirability for early prototyping and testing of new product ideas is often hindered by the time and cost to develop the software applications for these early prototypes".

"Using CyanIDE will greatly speed time to market and allow early product prototypes to be developed with minimum effort".

CyanIDE 2 is available to download from the Cyan website free of charge with no restrictions.

To support the launch of CyanIDE 2.0 and enable new customers to carry out a full evaluation, Cyan is offering its DevKit1X for GBP 149, a saving of 40%.

The DevKit1X and a range of other evaluation and developments kits, starting at GBP 49 are available from the new Cyan webshop which opens early May.

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