Posted on April 18, 2017 at 00:30 Turvey.Clive.002
: This was quite an effective technique when a Microprocessor ICE systems cost as much as a small car, and you could take a tea break waiting for the code to compile. You thought about the logic a lot more carefully.
Yoooah, that's a word. I am use the debugger more often as it requires in regular case. This is very helpful to ensure that the code works a you had assumed is does.
I had taste the Keil µVision IDE and this also requires longer if the project is greater that a few lines. I am not sure the price of them but this is in a range of $10000.- or more.
Eclipse CDE has often a parallel build available that uses more than one thread to compile the code. This saves some time if the program code normaly needs more time. The Link process will be finished by just one thread, of course.
If an incremental build is available, this could save also much compilation time. Keil often lacks this - i guess this issue is related by the project manager and the header file references in the code. I had never attempt to find out how this is related by - Keil is to expensive for just enjoy my ham radio hobby projects.
The price of the 'winIDEA Open' i actually use is a sub of their winIDEA IDE, that's based upon Eclipse, but deep customized and optimized for using Embedded developing only. I can recommend using the open version even some little things are missing like parallel build or finding a source file of a variable. The most IDE are able to do all this.
It's supports many RTOS and Debugger. The most common are the ST-Link or J-Link and it' support their owen brand of very specialized hardware for commercial usage. I am not known what the price is for the simple model, but this will be higher that a 'Segger JTAG-Trace', where i am interessting in.
Yes, your are right - this tools are very expensive but they also very productive and the documentation is quite good.
As an example - i had finished all issues i work actually try to find an open alternative in the Keil µVision in just a few hours. The same project based upon the GCC instead Keils Arm compiler consumes much more time and some issues are unsolved, yet.
In a hand of a professional embedded developer who needs to finish a firmware in a fixed and predictable time frame, this will save money. It's just a point of view.
