dr_danish_ali wrote: >Yes I know the issue of IDE choice is often discussed, but please bear >with me on this. >I'm a relative newbie with Philips lpc2xxx, but reasonably familiar >with PIC microcontrollers. So far I have been playing round with the >demo (16k limit) of the Keil uVision IDE + their jtag, and I am coming >to the stage when I have to pay real money for a full IDE / compiler / >debug suite to produce commercial code. > >Two points that cause me to question my current loyalty to Keil are >the poor performance of its compiler in some recently-posted >benchmarks, and the (apparently) closed nature of its jtag interface. >There is also the active support given to this list by those at Rowley. > >But a feature of Keil which I do not want to lose is their debug >support for on-chip peripherals. By peripheral I mean (for example) >the Vector Interrupt Controller, the I2C hardware etc. The Keil >debugger has summary windows showing the state of each peripheral, and >allows you to change the peripheral registers without needing to look >up how the peripheral register is mapped in memory or which bit >corresponds to a given flag. > >So my question is: Do other debugging environments have support for >on-chip peripherals? Either built-in or provided by third-party? I >would like an answer for both Rowley and IAR, not necessarily from the >same person. > > Hi Danish, CrossWorks For ARM supports the display of memory mapped peripheral registers. Regards Michael >Thanks in advance, >Danish > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > >
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Re: [lpc2000] IDE choice for peripheral support
2006-01-19 by Michael Johnson
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