CAMBRIDGE, England, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --
- New Version Provides Developers Significant Improvements in Performanceand Ease of use for the Full Line of ARM Processors
ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] today announced at the Embedded SystemsConference Silicon Valley in San Jose, Calif., the launch of the RealView(R)Development Suite version 3.1, in a continued commitment to providingbest-in-class integrated tools for creating embedded system software for thefull line of ARM(R) processors.
RealView Development Suite 3.1 provides performance improvements andtuning for ARM processor support, most notably by providing betteroptimization for the full Cortex(TM) processor family, including thejust-announced Cortex-M1 processor, the first ARM product designedspecifically for FPGA implementation.
As the first tool suite to support the new Cortex-M1 processor, theRealView Development Suite 3.1 ships with a complete Instruction Set SystemModel (ISSM) of the Cortex-M1 processor in addition to ISSMs of allpreviously announced Cortex family processors. This provides softwaredevelopers out-of-the-box support to create start-up code, firmware and bootoperating systems on Cortex family processors ahead of access to actualsilicon.
"In the fiercely competitive consumer electronics market, the OEM needsto achieve highly differentiated products with first-time-right complexhardware/software systems integration, while constrained by ever-shrinkingmarket windows," said Bryn Parry, general manager, Development Systems, ARM."To achieve this, embedded software developers must be able to quickly createor migrate applications onto hardware platforms that utilize the leading-edgefeatures of ARM intellectual property. The RealView Development Suite 3.1features significant improvements that enable developers to createhigher-performance applications more quickly and easily, with low risk."
"The RealView Development Suite version 3.1 accelerated the developmentand testing of our implementation of the ARM Cortex-M1 processor in ourCortex-M1 processor-enabled FPGAs," said Rich Brossart, vice president,marketing at Actel Corporation. "The combination of the Cortex-M1 processorwith the industry-standard RealView compilation tools will offer performanceand code density advantages to our customers."
As with the previous version of the RealView Development Suite, version3.1 is fully interoperable with the RealView CREATE family of electronicsystem level (ESL) design tools and models, which speeds time to market forembedded systems developers by enabling concurrent hardware/softwaredevelopment.
Further Code Density Improvements
To further improve code density for the range of ARM processor-basedapplications, the suite features a new optional microlib C library (a subsetof the ISO standard C run time library), which has been minimized in size formicrocontroller applications. The microlib C library achieves an amazing 92percent reduction in run-time library code size.
Ease of Use Improvements
Only the RealView Development Suite 3.1 offers a consistent debuginterface for all stages of product development and all ARM architectures,across the entire range of development platforms, such as cycle accuratemodels, fast virtual prototyping environments, FPGA implementation and testsilicon.
For the first time, users developing for applications processors with thehigh-performance ARM NEON(TM) SIMD signal processing architecture canseparately license an add-on vectorizing compiler that complements theRealView Development Suite 3.1.
The RealView ICE version 3.1 run control unit and its RealView Tracemodule, used in conjunction with RealView Development Suite 3.1, now offerextended support for the ARM CoreSight(TM) debug and trace technology.Developers can now configure the CoreSight trace system for multiple tracestreams through a single trace port. The CoreSight Serial Wire Debuginterface is also supported, which allows silicon designers to reduce the pincount required for debug to just two pins.
Additionally, the open-source Eclipse Integrated Development Environmentis now incorporated into the RealView Development Suite. This integrationcombines Eclipse's outstanding source code development tools and plug-inframework with the best-in-class ARM compilation and debug technology.Current users of the RealView Development Suite will immediately notice thenew Eclipse-based project wizard that automatically and optimally configuresthe tools for the chosen ARM processor and development board.
Further, intrinsics support in the new suite for ARM DSP instruction setextensions, ETSI functions and TI C55x DSPs means that developers no longerneed to write their signal processing operations in assembly language, butrather as C intrinsics. The work of register allocation and scheduling isdone automatically by the compiler.
Finally, the RealView Development Suite version 3.1 supports the latestANSI C99 language standard.
Availability
The RealView Development Suite version 3.1 is currently in use by leadARM Partners, and will be generally available in Q2 2007 from ARM and itsRealView distributor network. For ordering information, please visit<http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/pricing-devtools.html> and forinformation on distributors, please visit<http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/realview_distributors.html>.
About ARM
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digitalproducts, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions toimaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensiveproduct offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines,graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals,software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speedconnectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community,they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path tomarket for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM isavailable at <http://www.arm.com/>.
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