Re: Best microcontroller with Linux development tools
- From: Neil Cherry <njc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:19:18 -0500
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:41:29 -0500, Bob11 wrote:
Does anyone have any experience, or know of any vendors, of small
microcontroller development tools than run natively on Linux? I'm looking
at processors in the 8051/AVR/Z8 etc class. I'm not looking for embedded
Linux--I'm looking for a C compiler/IDE package that allows me to develop
for that processor on my Linux workstation. I need the processor in my
design for simple switch-scanning LED-lighting functions, ie basic GPIO,
and production quantities are in the low thousands/year, so feature set or
absolute cost is not a big issue. The processor just needs to be available
from US distribution channels. I already have licenses for Eagle, VariCAD
and Xilinx tools, so I'm fine with a commercial closed-source solution,
particular if it comes with reasonable support. I can even live without
the IDE as long as it has a good compiler and supports USB or serial-based
debugging/programming.
Yes, I know this is Usenet, but I'd rather not get into a
Windows/Mac/Linux debate. I just prefer Linux. So, if anyone has used, can
recommend, or can just point me to a vendor of microcontrollers or a third
party toolset vendor that has a native Linux toolkit/programming
development kit, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
For the PIC chips I've used C2C when it was in trial software for
Linux, I have the CSS compiler for the mid-range chips. I've used SDCC
for the 8051 family, I've played with the Atmel AT91 ARM and gcc, I
currently have an AVR Mega 128 setup for some work I'm doing. I have
the MKII JTAG interface and the ISP interface. I prefer the JTAG.
Sorry I have no IDE as I prefer make files and emacs. I'm pretty sure
that the list Grant provided of Micro/GCC/GDB work with Eclipse. I
can't use Eclipse because it doesn't support all the emacs keystrokes.
;-) I also have the MSP430 but I haven't had time to work with it yet.
Of course all of this is under Linux.
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