Debug-support til Freescale's nye Vybrid controller

Freescale Semiconductor's såkaldte Vybrid controller løsninger får nu dual-core debug support fra Atollic TrueSTUDIO (in english).

Incorporating both an ARM Cortex-M4 core and an ARM Cortex-A5 core within a single Vybrid controller solutions device, Atollic TrueSTUDIO v3.2 can debug both cores at the same time using a single IDE GUI instance, greatly simplifying the task of debugging a multicore application for embedded developers using this new device.

With its heterogeneous architecture, one of the key strengths of the Vybrid controller solutions device is its ability to partition tasks based on their characteristics. For tasks that need predictable interrupt management, for example, a typical need for realtime applications, the Vybrid platform has the ARM Cortex-M4 core with a Nested Vector Interrupt Controller (NVIC) while allowing graphical applications and connectivity stacks to be run on the ARM Cortex-A5 applications processor.

- We are pleased Atollic TrueSTUDIO now supports our new family of Vybrid dual-core devices, says Geoff Lees, vice president and general manager of Freescale's Industrial & Multi-Market MCU business.
- Not only is this an outstanding C/C++ IDE for professional embedded development, but now our customers can now get a highly productive dual-core debugging environment which is increasingly critical to the development of advanced embedded systems.

- With the new Freescale Vybrid controller solutions support in Atollic TrueSTUDIO, we address the high-end market of dual-core Cortex-A class systems by providing a powerful tool solution with integrated features for multicore debugging, improving code quality, promoting team collaboration and increasing developer efficiency. This enables our customers to develop Freescale Vybrid controller solution-based systems of higher quality, faster, and at lower cost, says Magnus Unemyr, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Atollic.

The recent release of Atollic TrueSTUDIO v3.2 has also introduced native RTOS-aware debugging for leading RTOSes such as FreeRTOS, OpenRTOS, ThreadX and embOS. Atollic TrueSTUDIO v3.2 also provides an integrated interface to the Micrium uC/Probe tool that provides RTOS-aware debugging for the uC/OS-III RTOS. RTOS-aware debugging greatly eases the task of debugging an RTOS-based embedded development.

It achieves this by presenting the software engineer with an insight to the RTOS status, message queues and tasks along with other information that will help them to have a better understanding of how their application is being handled within the RTOS.