Renesas Electronics announced the launch of an Eclipse-based platform, the Eclipse studio, known as e² studio, to provide a flexible development environment for its microcontrollers (MCU).
With this release, developers of Renesas’ RL78, RX and V850 families of MCUs can now benefit from Eclipse-based debugging capabilities as well as the established CDT functionality. Support for the SH-2/2A RISC MCUs is also in development and will be released shortly.
Over the last few years, significant momentum has built up behind the Eclipse C/C++ development toolkit, or CDT. Many developers have already discovered its powerful editing and project management capabilities, but have lacked the truly generic debug support they need. Renesas has architected e² studio to be compatible with future releases of Eclipse CDT following the current Helios release, ensuring future-proof development. Great care has been taken to ensure that e² studio has been developed based on the standard Eclipse CDT framework. Any customisation has been kept to an absolute minimum to ensure the portability of the plug-in technology.
The IDE 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 and E20 on-chip debuggers, Renesas’ IECUBE full specification emulators and Segger J-Link debugger. Having implemented a GDB interface with DSF extensions, features such as real-time memory and trace deliver the powerful debugging necessary for today’s embedded code development.
Renesas will supply e² studio technology to development engineers either bundled with Renesas toolchains, such as the RX compiler, or as a free-of-charge download from its website. Along with plug-in support for the compilers, each version will also include project management, version control and other productivity tools.
Renesas has also recognised that many customers already have an established Eclipse environment. To ensure these engineers can easily progress to developing code for the Renesas controllers, a full set of build and debug phase plug-ins is also available free of charge. Existing customers of Renesas’ High-performance Embedded Workshop (known as HEW) will benefit from the planned migration utility that will enable them to import existing projects into the e² studio.
For more information contact Marinus Rudman, Hi-Q Electronics, +27 (0)21 595 1307, [email protected], www.hi-q.co.za
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