Design Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

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NOTE: The Kinetis Design Studio IDE (KDS IDE) is no longer being actively developed but is being maintained to provide support for legacy Kinetis devices. The MCUXpresso IDE has now replaced the Kinetis Design Studio IDE as the recommended software development toolchain for NXP’s newes Kinetis, LPC and i.MX RT Cortex-M-based devices. For more details on MCUXpresso IDE, please visit http://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide.

The Kinetis® Design Studio (KDS) is a complimentary integrated development environment for Kinetis MCUs that enables robust editing, compiling and debugging of your designs. Based on free, open-source software including Eclipse, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Debugger (GDB), and others, the Kinetis Design Studio IDE offers designers a simple development tool with no code-size limitations. Furthermore, Processor Expert® software enables your design with its knowledge base and helps create powerful applications with a few mouse clicks.

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Embedded SW for SIGFOX based on OL2385

Embedded SW for SIGFOX based on OL2385
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Features

  • Eclipse Luna 4.4
  • Host operating systems:
    • Windows® 7/8/10 (32 and 64-bit)
    • Linux® 64-bit (Ubuntu 10.04 (deb), RedHat/Centos 7 (rpm))
    • Mac OS X (10.10 and 10.11) with SEGGER J-Link support
  • GDB debugger with support for the following debug interface hardware:
    • SEGGER J-Link (w/SEGGER GDB Server, Windows, Linux, Mac)
    • P&E Multilink (w/P&E GDB Server, Windows, Linux)
    • CMSIS-DAP (w/OpenOCD GDB and OpenSDA embedded circuit,Windows, Linux)
    • Command Line (CL) debugging with GDB and OpenOCD TCL
  • Support for additional downloadable Eclipse plug-ins including RTOS-awareness (including MQX™ and FreeRTOS)
  • Project wizard to create bare metal, Kinetis® SDK v1.x and v2 and Processor Expert® software projects
  • Processor Expert software with support for Kinetis SDK v1.x
  • Languages supported: Assembly, C and C++ (all with no code size restrictions)
  • Libraries included: launchpad newlib and newlib-nano
  • Kinetis SDK peripheral drivers and CMSIS compliant startup code
  • GNU Arm® Eclipse plugins for managed make projects
  • Make file projects
  • GNU tools for Arm® Embedded Processors (launchpad) toolchain and libraries
  • Integrated Eclipse CMSIS-SVD Register and Peripheral Viewer
  • Support for MQX project creation and MQX kernel awareness (available as MQX download)
  • Open for any Eclipse plugins either from the Eclipse ecosystem or NXP® Community Support partners
  • Additional device support is added through the Eclipse updates delivered with the Kinetis SDK

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