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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: CodeWarrior
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2008
MCU design tools increase licensing
flexibility
Tools will no longer be offered as stand-alone products, but instead be bundled into four flavours containing various CodeWarrior products supporting Freescale architectures.
Freescale Semiconductor is to package its CodeWarrior tools into suites that will make it easier for customers to migrate across the Freescale product line, reduce their development expense and increase flexibility in how they use their CodeWarrior tools licences CodeWarrior tools will no longer be offered as stand-alone products, but instead be bundled into four flavours containing various CodeWarrior products supporting Freescale architectures
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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As an example, if a customer buys a license for the CodeWarrior Professional Suite, one of the four packages being offered, it will allow customers working on the HCS08 architecture to add the V2 ColdFire architecture to their design without the added expense of a new tool set.
This one purchase gives customers the ability to experience multiple architectures quickly and get the most out of their software investment.
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"The award-winning CodeWarrior tools have not changed; they have been repackaged into suites that provide simplified, tiered offerings to address customers' varying technology and budget needs across multiple Freescale platforms", says Tim Tumilty, Freescale's director, Developer Technologies Organisation.
"We are excited about helping our customers leverage the power of Freescale's broad portfolio of products".
"Our new CodeWarrior suites offer a simple migration path for customers who design a wide range of products".
In addition to the newly packaged suites, Freescale is offering perpetual and annual subscriptions.
The perpetual pricing model includes permanent use of a CodeWarrior suite, while the annual subscription allows the use of the selected CodeWarrior suite for 12 months, substantially lowering the entry cost to develop with Freescale's portfolio of products.
Both pricing models include 12 months of technical support and maintenance with the option to add additional support to the perpetual licence after the first year.
Customers who have registered CodeWarrior development tools as of 1st May 2006 will automatically be recorded into the new model according to the product they registered.
These customers can expect to receive a notification e-mail and instructions about how to manage/register additional products.
The CodeWarrior Professional suite includes all full featured development tools for the highest level of product functionality at US $4995 for a perpetual licence or $1995 annual subscription.
The CodeWarrior Standard suite provides access to all selectively featured development tools at US $2495 for a perpetual licence or $995 annual subscription.
The CodeWarrior Basic suite includes all necessary CodeWarrior tools for compiler upgrades, Linux applications editions and flash programmers at US $995 for a perpetual licence or $395 annual subscription.
And CodeWarrior Special editions feature limited tools and are free of charge.
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