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the complete end-to-end software development tool suite for ARM-powered Linux and Android platforms’, ARM Developer Studio 5 (DS-5) features an application and kernel space debugger with trace, a system-wide profiler and performance analyzer, a real-time system simulator, and a compiler, all packaged in a tailored, powerful and user-friendly Eclipse based IDE. According to ARM, the tool suite makes it easy to develop and optimise Linux-based systems for ARM-powered systems, shortens development and testing cycles, and helps engineers create resource-efficient software.

 

New features in the DS-5 debugger include Linux boot code, kernel and driver debuging with process/thread awareness and module listing. In the Streamline tool, software profiling and performance analysis has been extended to support SMP configurations, native Android applications and libraries, and the additional ARM cores. The configuration database provides out-of-the-box debug support for additional devices and development boards, and the package includes new example software for the BeagleBoard.

 

DS-5 provides access to coprocessor registers and enables the use of hardware breakpoints and data access watchpoints. It also supports instruction tracing for localising timing-related software bugs and analysing performance-critical code. For debugging kernel-space code, DS-5 provides information on kernel threads, processes and loadable modules. This is complemented by a display of memory-mapped peripheral registers as they appear in the ASSP documentation, eliminating the need to consult device datasheets during driver development.

 

AMR DS-5 is available in two versions. The DS-5 Application Edition targets application development with a low-cost Ethernet or USB connection to the target, while the DS-5 Linux Edition adds support for platform bring-up, kernel and driver development, with the debug connection to the target provided by a DSTREAM debug and trace unit. Currently supported platforms include Atmel, Freescale, Marvell, NXP, ST, and TI catalogue devices. More devices will be added in future DS-5 releases.
 
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Actel announced the availability of the A2F500 Development Kit. The kit is supported by Actel’s Libero Integrated Design Environment (IDE), which includes SoftConsole Eclipse-based embedded software development environment. The company also announced the production availability of SmartFusion A2F500 devices.The device offers 500K system gates, a hard 100 MHz 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem with 512 MB of embedded flash and 64 KB of SRAM. The programmable analog blocks were also improved and now include 3 ADCs and 3 DACs, 10 comparators and much more.  The kit includes SmartFusion development board with SmartFusion A2F500M3G-FGG484 device Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN, RS485, UART, I2C and SPI interfaces Mixed Signal and Digital Expansion Header to connect application daughtercards Off-chip SRAM, Pseudo SRAM, SPI Serial Flash and NOR Flash memories Several switches, LEDs, Organic LEDs Low-cost programming stick (LCPS)  The A2F500-DEV-KIT is priced at $999 and available now for ordering. For evaluating SmartFusion FPGAs, an Evaluation Kit based on the A2F200 device is also available for $99 (A2F-EVAL-KIT).
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Microchip Technology and Cymbet have joined hands to offer the XLP 16-bit Energy Harvesting Development Kit, a customizable energy-harvesting application development kit with a modular development board.

Microchip’s contribution to the kit is the PIC24F16KA102 microcontroller, featuring eXtreme low power technology, along with support for PICtail daughter boards for rapid evaluation of a wide variety of system functions, including ZigBee, proprietary wireless connectivity and SD memory cards.
Cymbet contributes its EnerChip EH Eval-08 energy harvesting board, which harvests indoor or outdoor light energy and stores it in solid-state, thin-film EnerChip rechargeable energy storage devices. The EnerChips supply power to the XLP development board when light is not available.

The development board portion of the kit features the PIC24F16KA102 XLP MCU, on-board temperature sensors, data EEPROM, a potentiometer, watch crystal, LEDs, and an expansion connector for PICtail modules. Supported PICtails include RF, SD/MMC cards, speech playback and more.

Power condition and capacity are monitored by the PIC24F using Energy Aware software algorithms developed by Microchip and Cymbet. The monitored information can be reported to the PC user interface over a USB connection. This allows users to experiment with balancing energy collection versus energy use and maximise the benefits of energy harvesting.

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