【Taiwan HsinChu】Andes Technology Corporation, the first vendor of innovative 32-bit microprocessor IPs and associated SoC platforms in Asia, announced the launch of the upgraded IDE AndeSightTM 1.4 and a MCU version targeting low-end market after the rollout of AndeSightTM 1.3.3 at the end of last year. The MCU version features IDE and toolchains that support AndesCoreTM CPU N10 and N9, allowing SoC designers and software programmers to develop programs on a virtual SoC platform and perform verification on a development board. For system development, it also provides a variety of system start-up/initialization codes and advanced debugging tools adjustable based on users’ SoC configurations, catering the demands of MCU developers for a customizable environment.  

AndeSightTM 1.4 IDE, while keeping its 1.3.3 version’s rich profiling and development capabilities, comes with more practical tools, advanced debuggers, and hardware data reading functions to shorten programmers’ development time. It enables developers to specify program start addresses and set a number of toolchain parameters on GUI. Concerning program burners, the additive In-System Programming function helps to cut down the boot code development time. As for debugging, AndeSightTM 1.4 IDE is enhanced by Shared Library debugging, SoC register access, hardware breakpoint setting and the display of memory contents either from CPU’s or BUS’s perspective which assists programmers to verify cache’s influence over data correctness. When debugging on OS level, it is characterized by OS awareness on μC/OS‐II executables. Furthermore, the new generation development toolchains of AndeSightTM 1.4 comes with linking optimization and assembly language based math library optimization.  

“Supporting the latest AndesCoreTM CPU, such as N1233-40U2S and N1233-5, the new generation IDE toolchains of AndeSightTM 1.4 not only raise program efficiency but also streamline code sizes,” said Dr. Charlie Su, CTO of Andes Technology. ”The newly-added debugging tools facilitate developers to get to the root of the problems on hardware, software/firmware or system levels quickly and accurately. With the help of commonly-used libraries such as glibc, uClibc and newlib, AndeSightTM 1.4 meets well the various requirements of Linux or RTOS developers. In terms of overall efficiency, AndeSightTM 1.4 has made 8% ~ 11% improvement compared to 1.3.3 version.”