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BeyondStudio Integrated Development Environment

BeyondStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) integrates the development tools for the BA2x family of processor cores into a single platform based on the Eclipse / CDT. It offers easy access to the compilation and debugging tools which are essential in modern software development.

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Eclipse "Luna" SR1 (4.1.1) based IDE, with all of its generic functionality	Great source code editor with syntax highlighting, customizable code style, code cross-referencing, refactoring, etc. Managed build system Source level debugger GUI GUI based configuration Plug-in extensibility, with numerous plug-ins readily available
Integrated GNU based cross compiling toolchain	GCC 4.9.2 Binutils 2.24 GDB 7.8,1 Newlib C library 2.1.0
Instruction set simulator (basim)	Cycle accurate for BA22-DE with QMEM tightly coupled memories supporting instruction level profiling Customizable BA2x processor configuration
Template projects	Exception handling template Dhrystone FreeRTOS template project
Custom tools and plug-in components allowing for easy deployment of binary to simulator or hardware targets
Custom views (profile, cycle counts, embedded registers)

BeyondStudio is available for 32 and 64-bit editions of recent Linux distributions and Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Integrated toolchain can also be used directly from command line.

Configure

1. Step: Configure your project

Choose to start from one of provided templates, including:

Hello UART C project
Exception handling C project
ROM/RAM project sample
Dhrystone benchmark sample
FreeRTOS…

… and get going with just a few mouse clicks.

Create new project from scratch and get full control over:

C/C++ Build settings
BA2x specific compiler, linker and assembler options
BA2x processor configuration (little/big endian, number of GPRs, FPU, …)

… or revert to using Makefiles, if you prefer.

Edit

2. Step: Source code editing

Edit your source code with BeyondStudio source code editor with advanced features like:

Effortless navigation through your code (hyper-linked code, search references, etc.)
Code refactoring
Syntax highlighting
Customizable code formatting

3. Step: Register View

hile writing or debugging your code, register viewer allows you to

Observe and modify values of SPR registers
Observe and modify peripheral registers
View documentation of register bits

Registers are described by user-extendable system description files allowing you add your peripherals Register View.

Build

4. Step: Build your project

Configure your project through GUI (or Makefiles if you prefer).

Build your project with a mouse click.

Launch

5. Step: Running your code

Connect Beyond Debug Key to your board and benefit with

Single debug device for JTAG access and UART console
Support for target board IO voltages ranging from 1.2 V to 5V
Transfer rates in excess of 600 kB/s

Seamlessly switch between launching your code in simulator or board

Automatically start and connect console
Effortlessly recompile and upload code to target device
Start and stop your code with a single click

Debug

6. Step: Debug your code

Everybody writes bug free code, but sometimes it takes a bit of time to get there. BeyondStudio helps you get to working code faster using its graphical user interface:

Set, clear software and hardware breakpoints and watchpoints
Step over assembly instructions, code lines,…
Call stack view and inspection
Variables display
Expressions display
Disassembly view
Memory view

Register View makes it even easier to debug your code.

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