New enhancements for Atollic's IDE
23 January 2013
Design Automation
Atollic recently released the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), TrueSTUDIO.
Believed to be the world’s first embedded IDE to include professional static source code analysis tools, the IDE’s analysis and metrics functions include checking for compliance against the MISRA-C:2004 coding standard and code metrics features such as code complexity analysis.
By following the MISRA-C coding standard, developers are more able to tackle the challenges often associated with using the C language and are guided to improve code portability, ease of maintainability and application reliability. TrueSTUDIO v3.3 follows the MISRA-C coding standard rigorously, ensuring that embedded developers can be assured their code is validated to the highest standards possible.
By using the built-in code metrics analysis tools, developers can easily measure important statistics like code complexity or commenting level of the source code. This empowers developers by providing them with the necessary tools to rewrite and improve their code. For example, reliability and maintainability is typically improved if overly complex C functions are re-factored or rewritten into simpler coding style.
TrueSTUDIO also provides a rich GUI for visualisation and navigation of the MISRA-C and code metrics analysis results, including a report generator that produces test reports in a variety of popular file formats. Embedded developers have the capability to code, compile, debug and perform source code analysis all within a single development environment.
In addition to incorporating the inspection and analysis tools, TrueSTUDIO v3.3 now also includes native support for kernel-aware debugging of embedded applications developed using Micrium’s uC/OS-III real-time kernel.
TrueSTUDIO’s debugger provides docking windows that indicate the internal RTOS state during debugging. This is accomplished providing highly informative windows into task control blocks (TCBs), semaphores, mutexes, timers and more.
The new software version also significantly improves the range of microcontroller targets supported and includes support for many new devices from Energy Micro, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba, NXP and Infineon. Other tool enhancements in the new version include several debugger improvements such as a new memory fill function, added support for Multilink and OSJTAG debug probes and the Freescale OpenSDA interface.
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