Renesas Electronics has decided to offer an Eclipse-based embedded design platform for its RL78, RX and V850 families of microcontrollers.
Support for the SH-2/2A RISC MCUs is also in development and will be released shortly.
The supplier is tapping in to the design momentum which has built up behind the Eclipse C/C++ development toolkit (CDT). But Renesas believes there has been the lack of generic debug support.
The firm's e2studio development platform is supplied with build phase plug-ins for Renesas, IAR, Green Hills Software and the free-of-charge KPIT Cummins GNU compilers.
Debug support includes Renesas’ E1 & E20 on-chip debuggers, Renesas’ IECUBE full specification emulators and Segger J-Link debugger.
The GDB interface with DSF extensions offers debugging features such as real-time memory and trace.
Renesas will supply e2studio technology to development engineers either bundled with its existing toolchains, such as the RX compiler, or as a free-of-charge download from its website.
To support the Eclipse introduction there are a full set of build and debug phase plug-ins is also available free of charge.
Renesas now supports a range of compilers and debuggers based on proprietary IDEs, such as IAR Systems Embedded Workbench or Green Hills MULTI, as well as a truly open-source Eclipse solution.
The e2studio development environment will be demonstrated at Renesas’ booth, hall 1 / 1-336, at the Embedded World show in February.
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