Speed Up Your Application Development

When you have a deadline to meet, you want to be up and running quickly and need tools that not only help you be more effective but also help you produce the most efficient code. The TASKING PowerPC (PPC) Software Development Toolset helps you speed up application development and get your product to market faster.

What's New in Version v2.1

• Additional compiler optimizations
• CrossView Pro Debugger improved look and feel
• Flash Programming
• Grouping of registers
• Symbolic editing of registers
• Bubble-Spy™ of variables and/or functions
• Enable/disable breakpoints
• Programmable graphical data analysis
• Support for the PLX IOP 480
• Support for Freescale 740/750, 8240/8260

Read the What's New in v2.1 datasheet for additional information on the new features

The PowerPC Software Development Toolset

EDE (Embedded Development Environment)

…supplies you with direct and easy access to all the tools you need for your embedded application development via a single user interface. EDE enables you to:

• easily navigate between tools
• define multiple project environments and dependencies
• quickly edit using a language sensitive editor
• automatically generate make files
• access to third party tools
• personalize your environment to your needs
• easily configure the C compiler, C++ compiler, assembler, linker/locator and debugger
• organize object files into an archive library
• convert ELF object format into hexadecimal so programs can be downloaded into EPROM or flash

PPC C/C++ Compiler

…applies powerful optimization algorithms which combined with PowerPC specific optimizations produces the most efficient code for you application.

• ANSI C and ISO C++
• Conforms fully to ANSI C X3.159-1989 and the X3J16C++ standard
• C++ supports templates, dynamic casts, run-time type identification and exception handling
• Extensive compiler optimizations
• Branch and time profiling
• In-line assembly
• Macro preprocessing
• Fully reentrant libraries for ANSI C, floating point, C++ classes and functions, low-level I/O, symbolic register access
• Multiple locator output formats

PowerPC CrossView Pro Debugger

…provides features and functionality to help shorten debugging sessions, test/verify applications and determine performance bottlenecks.

• All features accessible via a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Full support of PowerPC on-chip debug unit
• Debug applications in ROM
• File System Simulation requires no special user interaction and enables the testing of I/O functions without hardware
• Record and playback eliminates repetitive debugging sessions and helps speed up testing
• Powerful breakpoints (code, data, on-chip, assertions, complex, permanent, temporary)
• High Speed Simulator includes a Peripheral Debug Interface
• Code Coverage capabilities in the simulator
• Programmable graphical data analysis allow the quick detection of errors in input or output routines
• "Bubble-Spy" immediately views values of a variable or function
• Register grouping into meaningful sets such as UART, special purpose, floating point
• Symbolic register editing enters the register value by specifying the meaning of the bits in the register
• Integrated Flash Programming capabilities
• Mixed-mode source/assembly display with C source lines highlighted in mixed disassembly mode
• Open Architecture encourages interoperability with other vendors
• Multiple execution environments (Simulator, ROM monitor, On-chip debug,In-Circuit Emulator)
• Multiple viewing windows display the type and level of information you need
• Full trace including C level, assembly level and stack
• Compatibility with other third party compilers

Supported Derivatives

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The TASKING PowerPC tools are available for PC/Windows.

Download fully working demo version.

For more details on the PowerPC Tools, read the Datasheet.