Tag: IDE

Great Cow BASIC is a robust and fully functional compiler and assembler for 8-bit microchip PIC and Atmel AVR microcontrollers. It was developed to cater for all class of embedded system solution developers from experts to beginners but with a great tool to help beginners. It was...

Maker Asia is an organization in South East Asia which owns Maker Lab; a place where makers put their creativity in use. They have recently released a new software product and Maker Asia, who have mostly focused on a hardware product line is eventually into a new space. The newly launched...

NXP MCUXpresso Eclipse IDE v11 is now available. The V11 of the MCUXpresso IDE is again a big step forward: new Eclipse version and 64bit, updated ARM toolchain, extended debugging support for P&E and Segger in addition to the LinkServer connection. The Global Variables view now...

Makers and hobbyists enjoy design environments that can automatically identify and bring up hardware when it is connected to a host computer (for example: Arm mbed & Arduino). For professional engineers, this level of assistance may at first seem unnecessary, but in fact it can...

RS Components is now stocking Microchip’s MPLAB Snap in-circuit debugger/programmer, for simple and quick debugging and programming of most Microchip PIC, AVR and SAM flash MCUs. [via] The MPLAB® Snap In-Circuit Debugger/Programmer allows affordable, fast and easy debugging and...

Microchip has launched MPLAB X IDE version 5.05 which beta supports the majority of AVR MCUs – allowing developers to easily incorporate AVR MCUs into any application. [via] Further support for additional AVR MCUs will be provided in MPLAB versions. AVR support will continue...

Cost and size, just to mention a few, makes using an Arduino board in certain projects an overkill, often times its always too big, or too expensive for the scope of the project especially when it’s a project that we need to make several units. One good way to retain the simplicity...

Here is another guide from David Johnson-Davies @ technoblogy.com explaining how to program an ATmega328 on a breadboard using the Arduino IDE. The guide is focused on how to use the internal clock of the microcontroller and how to achieve this using the Arduino environment. By default...