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News Release from: Metrowerks Europe | Subject: ColdFire development solutions
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Developers working with the latest ColdFire processor families can leverage end-to-end development solutions that support a variety of open source and commercial operating systems.
Developers creating industrial controls and network connected products based on the latest ColdFire processor families from Freescale Semiconductor can leverage end-to-end development solutions from Metrowerks Corp that support a variety of open source and commercial operating systems Metrowerks supports the integration of commercial real-time operating systems (RTOSs) into designs based on ColdFire technology with Version 5 of the Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio for ColdFire Architectures
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio for ColdFire Architectures is designed to integrate with ARC's high performance MQX RTOS and many other world-class embedded operating systems to allow developers to incorporate commercial RTOS technologies into their ColdFire designs.
"The Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio for ColdFire Architectures works seamlessly with the MQX RTOS, allowing developers to quickly and easily create new products that offer high levels of performance and reliability", said Jeri Ann May, Marketing Director, ARC Software.
Version 5 of the Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio for ColdFire Architectures offers a robust development environment, including a high performance debugger that addresses challenges specific to developing within MMU-based semiconductor environments.
The studio integrates with run control and code analysis tools from Metrowerks to provide a single environment for development - from hardware and OS bring up to application creation and testing.
In addition, the studio provides the following features and capabilities: fast, intuitive programming of both on-chip and onboard Flash memory; integrated hardware diagnostics for board bring-up; enhanced command window for complex scripting capabilities; built-in software profiler for hot spot analysis; and an enhanced editor for greater developer productivity.
The first Version 5 toolset will be the CodeWarrior Development Studio for MCF547x and MCF548x architectures, which will ship concurrent to availability of Freescale evaluation boards that support those processors.
Version 5 of the Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio for ColdFire Architectures is priced at Eur 4753 (price includes one year of support).
CodeWarrior Development Studio for ColdFire ISA, Linux Platform Edition is priced at Eur 4278.
Evaluation CDs of Version 5 of CodeWarrior Development Studio for ColdFire Architectures are available immediately to support the latest silicon from Freescale Semiconductor.
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