To increase the usability and to provide an environment for rapidly and efficiently developing software for embedded systems, the Integrated Development Environment Eclipse is part of our toolchains for

• TriCore
• Power Architecture
• ARM

Editor

• Several projects in the same workspace
• Version control
• Split View
• Code completion
• Symbol browser for functions, variables
• Code snippets
• Source code formatter

Project management

• Save user-defined projects as templates
• Multi-target projects
• Support project dependencies
• To-do list management with different users

The IDE is available for TriCore, Power Architecture and ARM on cross-platform Windows and Linux.

Eclipse Features

DAvE Importer

If projects generated with DAvE are imported into Eclipse, all the configuration information will be included in the Eclipse project settings. Only 3 steps are necessary for debugging a DAvE project.

• Import DAvE project
• Build project
• Start debugger via PLS button

Powerful Wizards

When using the project wizards, you only have to choose your derivative and type of flash; the corresponding startup-code as well as the memory layout for RAM and ROM will then be included in the build targets. Once these steps are completed, all you have to do is compile the generated project and press the PLS button to start a debug session.

Model driven Linker Description File

The fact that any modification of the memory layout for embedded systems is rather error-prone, induced us to develop a model-driven GUI to describe the memory layout. This description will be verified against the derivative memory layout and will assist you in placing the code and data in the appropriate regions of the memory.