| December, 2009 Edition Copyright Arnold Kochman. Other copyrights also apply, including but not limited to the GNU General Public License. |
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This CD contains a variety of development software that you can run on your PC. Programs are suitable for Windows/DOS and/or Linux/UNIX, and in a few cases other host systems. Included are a number of very useful compilers and IDE's, debuggers, simulators, loaders, executive codes and other potentially useful software.
Most packages are distributed in the form of compressed archives, for example .zip files for Windows packages and .tgz for Linux. The buyer is expected to be prepared to expand these files with a program such as PKUNZIP or WinZip for Windows, or tar, gzip, etc for Linux, etc.
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| YAGARTO - A cross development environment for the ARM architecture, running on a Windows Or an Intel-based Macintosh host. It includes the GNU C/C++ toolchain and the Eclipse IDE. It is written in C and is released under a public license. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PocketGCC - A port of the well-known GNU C/C++ compiler (version 3.2) and Binutils (version 2.13) for ARM-WinCE-PE platform. Both crosscompiler and native builds are provided, allowing to develop applications for WindowsCE devices with ARM-compatible processor on the go without desktop. The crosscompiler is offered with a view to use on Windows platforms as well as Linux/UNIX platforms. The package is in C and C++ and is released persuant to the GNU General Public License. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SkyEye - A Simulator for ARM microprocessors and others. Users can
run Operating Systems such as Linux, uCLinux, RTEMS etc and can
analyze or debug in source level with gdb. The software runs on all
Linux/UNIX type systems. It also runs on all 32-bit Windows systems,
but requires the X Window System. The package is written in Assembly
and C and is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
License and the Open Software License 3.0.
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Softgun - An ARM (and other CPU) emulator. It is Intended to help
developers of embedded systems without real Hardware. It is written in
C for Linux/UNIX type systems and is distributed persuant to the GNU
General Public License.
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| SimIt-ARM 3.0 - An instruction-set simulator that runs both system-level and user-level ARM programs. It supports both interpretation and dynamic-compiled simulation. It is developed for the IA32 Linux platform but may work for other platforms as well. SimIt-ARM supports the ARM v5 architecture, including the memory management unit and some fundamental I/O devices. SimIt-ARM is fast; on a Pentium D 2.8GHz desktop, the interpreter runs at above 30MIPS. The dynamic-compiled simulator runs even faster, especially for long simulation tasks or when a multi-core workstation is used. The package is developed in C++ and all simulation states are packaged in C++ classes. Therefore it is easy to create multiple simulator objects for modeling multiprocessor targets. It is also easy to extend the simulator by deriving new classes. SimIt-ARM is for Linux and is offered under the GNU General Public License. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GXemul - A full-system computer emulator, emulating ARM processors, among others along with related peripherals. In some cases the emulation is sufficiently faithful to run unmodified guest operating systems run as if they were running on real hardware. The package is written in C and purports to be portable. However, inasmuch as it uses the X Window System it favors Linux/UNIX type systems. GXemul is distributed under the BSD License. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ARM9Core - An emulator for the ARM9 microprocessors, based upon a very accessible C++ library. It runs on an x86 Win32 platform. The library emulates the basic core while allowing you are free to implement the subsystem specifics of the machine whose behaviour you are wish to emulate. ARM9Core is distributed under the GNU Library or Lesser General Public License. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel - FreeRTOS - Mini RTOS kernel for small embedded systems. Preconfigured example programs are included for a variety of microcontroller architectures including ARM7, ARM CORTEX M3. FreeRTOS can operate in fully pre-emptive, co-operative, or hybrid configurations. It supports tasks, queues, binary semaphores, counting semaphores, recursive semaphores and mutexes. It is also available for other architecutes. FreeRTOS is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Compatible commercial versions OpenRTOSTM and SafeRTOSTM are available to support additional development requirements and commercial support is available. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ARMboot - A firmware suite for ARM based platforms. ARMboot is heavily
based on the sister-project PPCboot, which provides similar
functionality on PowerPC based systems. The package is written in C
and assembly language for Linux/UNIX systems but purports to be
portable. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
License.
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| QP State Machine Frameworks - QP - An event-driven framework for embedded systems with functionality that resembles that of a RTOS in some ways. It enables the programmer to conveniently create concurrent UML state machines from C or C++ codes. The package includes development kits for ARM 7, ARM 9 and ARM Cortex-M3, among other microcontrollers. The package is written in C and C++ and is distributed under the GNU General Public License and other public licenses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Binary vIEW - bview - A portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight ARM disassembler and will also disassemble code of many other microprocessors. It is written in C and on all 32-bit Windows and all Linux/UNIX type systems including Mac OS X and QNX, and OS/2. It is made available under the GNU General Public License. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Universal firmware loader - WinLoader - A utility to load firmware into different devices using various interfaces with extensible programmer driver support. It is derived from the WinAvrLoader software package. It is written in C++ for 32-bit Windows systems and is released under the GNU General Public License. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The software, in most cases, requires a Windows, DOS, or Linux/UNIX host system. The user will need to have appropriate archive utility programs in order to access some of the files. This should not be any problem for the files that are relevant to your host system.
Please understand that I cannot give assurances about the suitability of any package for a particular purpose.