Reflex Technology announces Atollic appointed by Freescale as a founding partner of new Kinetis featured IDE initiative

"Freescale's commercial tools strategy for Kinetis MCUs moving forward is based on featuring a small number of the ARM® ecosystem's professional IDEs to provide our customers with best-in-class development options today and in the future," says JC Bodet, Director of Microcontroller Software and Services at Freescale. "Atollic TrueSTUDIO offers the modern software engineering capabilities built on the open Eclipse and GNU industry standards that Kinetis device customers are requesting." By virtue of being based on Eclipse and using the GNU collection of development tools, Atollic TrueSTUDIO is believed to offer the easiest migration path for customers who wish to upgrade from their legacy Eclipse/GNU tools such as CodeWarrior Developer Studio for Microcontrollers to something more powerful and modern. Also, Processor Expert software, Freescale's software configuration tool, is an Eclipse plug-in that will easily install and run within Atollic TrueSTUDIO. Providing the widest feature set of any professional embedded integrated development environment (IDE) available on the market, Atollic TrueSTUDIO has many powerful features such as parallel compilation, RTOS aware debugger with a built-in crash analyzer, and support for multicore and multiprocessor debugging. Event, data and instruction tracing, real-time variable watch view, MISRA-C checking, code complexity analysis and source code review features are also included as standard. The new TrueSTUDIO® v5.0 is a major upgrade with many improvements and new features. It contains a complete GUI facelift providing a modern appearance and a new windowing system with a much more flexible layout and docking solution. TrueSTUDIO v5.0 also adds strong support for dual-monitor and multiple-monitor systems. This enables power users to have more perspectives, editors and docking views open at the same time, using two or more monitors connected to the same PC. This version update also includes many improvements to the editor, build system and debugger, and adds support for many new target devices and boards. Target support is provided for Freescale's comprehensive portfolio of ARM-based solutions including Kinetis MCUs based on ARM Cortex®-M cores, Vybrid controller solutions built on Cortex-M and Cortex-A cores and i.MX applications processors based on Cortex-A cores. "We are absolutely delighted to have TrueSTUDIO selected by Freescale as a featured IDE for Kinetis devices," comments Magnus Unemyr, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Atollic. He continues, "We are fully committed to supporting Freescale's Kinetis MCU product roadmap and firmly believe that Atollic TrueSTUDIO offers the best way for developers to "future proof" their development investment while also leveraging state of the art tools across their team. More information available at www.atollic.com If you want see Atollic TrueSTUDIO in action, why not look at our Video Tutorials at http://atollic.com/index.php/videotutorials