UDE 2.6 supports new Cortex-M3 and Cortex-A8 based MCUs from NXP, Toshiba, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments

(23. November 2009) ARM Cortex-M3 and ARM Cortex-A8 core based microcontrollers not only feature a high processing power at low power consumption compared to MCUs with ARM7/ARM9 cores, but also, and above all, significantly better debug and test possibilities. For example, new technologies such as Serial Wire Debug (SWD), Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) and Instrumentation Trace Macrocell (ITM) enable observation of systems - also while an application is running - without any or with very little change of the timing behavior.

Version 2.6 of the Universal Debug Engine (UDE) from pls Programmierbare Logik & Systeme is now available. With the help of this universal tool, unlimited use of Cortex-M3 and Cortex-A8 typical debug and test functions are now available on a large number of different microcontrollers.

With regard to Cortex-M3 derivatives, the UDE 2.6 currently supports the new LPC1758/56/54/52/51 and LPC1768/66/65/64 series from NXP, the TMPM330, TMPM360, TMPM370 and TMPM380 MCUs from Toshiba as well as the STM32F and STM32W microcontroller families from STMicroelectronics.

Furthermore, the UDE 2.6 is also optimally geared for software testing on Texas Instruments' OMAP35xx devices. The microcontrollers, equipped with a Cortex-A8 core, were designed mainly for use in multimedia, graphics and video applications.

The new UDE 2.6 can not only be used under Windows XP und Windows Vista, but also, of course, under Windows 7. Furthermore a complete Eclipse integration with complete cross debugger functionality is already included in the extensive test and debug tool, without extra charge.

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