| Compilers for ARM microcontrollers | IAR Systems and the Segger debugger J-Link offer highly optimizing C-Compilers, the debugger C-Spy and the hardware USB to J-TAG emulator J-Link for the LPC2000 and LPC3000 devices. Starter Kits for most LPC2000 controllers are available from IAR. |
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| From Keil ,
the
MDK supports all LPC2000 and LPC3000 devices. A 16k evaluation
version of uVision3 can be downloaded. ULink2 is the successor of ULink and runs more reliable and a little faster. |
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| From Rowley Associates CrossWorks for ARM based on a GNU-compiler but with optimized libraries and a professional debugger interface. Educational packages available. Rowley evaluation boards (CrossFire) and a JTAG debuggers called CrossConnect | |
| Evaluation Boards | You can get most evaluation boards from LPCtools. IAR
boards
for the LPC2000 family include a 32kb limited
Embedded Workbench ARM, EWARM, C-Compiler version. Needs registration
with IAR but no expiration! A high-end eval board is available from Embedded
Artists in Sweden. This company supports many NXP ARM7
microcontrollers
and the eval boards for the LPC2468 and the LPC2478 have an excellent
price/performance ratio. LPC3250 is already supported by Phytec and Adeneo, see also WinCE section of this site. The board is called "phyCORE-ARM9-LPC3250". |
| Keil Software sells boards MCB2100, MCB2130, MCB2140, MCB2360 with the LPC2368 and MCB2370, with the LPC2378, including a 16k size limited C-Compiler version. The C-compiler is embedded in the new uVision3. and based on the ARM Real-View technology. | |
| Emulators |
Many
Emulators are
available
because of the integrated JTAG and Embedded Trace functions are
industry standard. Professional solutions from Keil come with
U-Link or now with U-Link2, an USB-JTAG debugger / emulator. The
competitive solution from IAR comes with the Segger J-Link.
While U-Link is tied to Keil environment, J-Link is more universal and can also be
used
with other compiler / debugger combinations e.g. Rowley or probably the
best free integrated tool YAGARTO.
Yagarto is Eclipse based and uses GNU tools without needing Cygwin or similar programs. Some measurements about JTAG download speeds with several targets show that J-Link is a real high-speed option. Some examples for other ARM7 and ARM9 emulators: Hitex offers the product Tanto, Lauterbach offers Trace-32, Ashling, Signum and iSystem are other companies with emulators for ARM7 and ARM9 microcontrollers. Probably the lowest cost trace solution is J-Trace. For automotive applications but also well suited for industrial the emulator from PLS offers excellent selection of debugging channels. It does already support the LPC3250 |
| WinCE | Adeneo offers board support packages for Windows Embedded CE and .NET Micro Framework on LPC2000 and LPC3000 MCUs, as well as Support and Systems integration services to help OEMs in securing their designs with the best time to market. |
| Operating Systems | Segger embOS is an affordable, no-royalties operating system. Under the Evaluation Board subsection you can find Board Support Packages BSPs for LPC2103, LPC2106, LPC2148 and LPC2378 boards. Other Operating Systems, RTOS include SMXRTOS, uC-OSII, ThreadX, Nucleus, FreeRTOS... |
| Middleware | Middleware is architecture-independent software that shortens time to market. Examples are software stacks for USB, TCP/IP, analyzer tools, embedded graphics tools and so on. The LPC2478 and LPC2470 are going to be the first LPC2000 devices with an integrated LCD controller. emWin is a graphic library tool that supports many architectures and also the LPC247x. For all that I know the best USB stacks are available from Thesycon. |
| Additional
Tools |
You can find more information about tools for other architectures at http://www.mcu-related.com |
| Events | ARM developers Conference is coming up in Santa Clara Oct 7-9 Embedded Systems Conference East in Boston October 26-30 |
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