Re: ARM Development - IAR vrs Keil vrs Image Craft

On 31 Dec 2005 20:59:24 GMT, htesticle@xxxxxxxxxxx (David Fowler) wrote:

>I am playing with the free version of IAR but for home project work the full up program is too expensive.
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> I know about GNU ARM but I have been told that the free tools are not as easy to use as the $IDE tools. I have went through the free GNU ARM tutorial, very good by the way.
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>I might be able to swing the Image Craft package if it's good. How does it compair to the ohter guys?

I've been pretty happy with it, although to be honest I've lately been
doing mostly AVR development. The ARM stuff is contingency and getting
me ready for when an ARM is the appropriate fit. That said, the ARM and
AVR (and the rest of the packages) all share a common GUI and compiler
front-end.

I usually code with gvim (outside of the IDE) and use the GUI mostly as
a push-button make. The "application builder" is handy for getting the
basic skeleton of an app set up, handling the grunt work of initializing
the various peripherals and interrupt service routines.

I'm happy enough with them that I've purchased their ARM, AVR, and
MSP430 compilers but rather than going into a long exposition here I'd
recommend dropping by their mailing list archives at
http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo. As usual, most of the
discussions are started by people with problems/issues so it's a good
place to sample what questions there are and how well (or not) the
questions are addressed. It's generally a pretty chummy group, which is
a good sign. The AVR list is much more active then the ARM so you might
want to check it, as well, to get a feel for things.

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Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
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