Crossware Enhances ColdFire Suite with Support for Freescale MCF547x/8x Chips.CAMBRIDGE, England -- Crossware (www.crossware.com), a leading embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. tools developer, has enhanced its ColdFire(R) Development Suite by adding support for Freescale Semiconductor's MCF547x and MCF548x ColdFire microprocessors. The MCF547x and MCF548x are high speed microprocessors based on the advanced V4e ColdFire Core. All microprocessors in the range have a wide range of connectivity peripherals, a memory management unit, a dual precision floating point unit (FPU (Floating Point Unit) A computer circuit that handles floating point operations. FPU - floating-point unit ) and an enhanced multiply and accumulate unit (eMAC). The Crossware Suite includes a separate C header file In C programming, a source code file that contains common definitions and data structures that all programmers may use as required. Also called "include files," because the #include statement is used to incorporate them with the program, header files use a .h extension. See precompiled header. for each microprocessor in the range. This ensures that the developer has access only to the structures that are relevant to the chosen microprocessor and cannot therefore inadvertently write code for a peripheral that the chosen microprocessor does not have. The Crossware C compiler generates code that takes full advantage of the FPU and the Crossware simulator fully simulates both the FPU, including FPU exceptions, and the eMAC. This enables developers to run code that uses these units both with and without hardware. Crossware's FireFly USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. BDM BDM Black Divorced Male BDM Business Development Manager BDM Background Debug(ger) Mode BDM Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls during the Third Reich, akin to Hitler Youth) (background debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. mode) interface has also been enhanced to handle features that are specific to Freescale's System-on-Module (SOM) Fire Engine boards for these chips. This includes the programming of Intel's advanced K3 Strataflash memory chips. Crossware is a leading developer of programmer-friendly C cross compilers and other development tools for embedded systems based on the 8051, ColdFire, 68000, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. 32 and other chip families. Host environments include Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The company, founded by Alan Harry in 1984, is headquartered in the UK at Litlington on the outskirts of Cambridge. Crossware's products are used throughout the world by professional developers, educational establishments and hobbyists. For more information about the ColdFire Development Suite or any product from Crossware, please contact Alan Harry, Crossware, Old Post House, Silver Street, Litlington, Royston, Herts, SG8 0QE, UK, tel: + 44 (0) 1763 853500 or fax + 44 (0) 1763 853330, alan@crossware.com. |
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