Date: 26/09/2012

CCES Software Dev. Platform from Analog for its SHARC and Blackfin processors

Analog Devices, Inc. has launched new software development platform CrossCore Embedded Studio (CCES) for its Blackfin and SHARC processors. CCES was created using the industry standard open source Eclipse environment to allow access to a rich ecosystem of both proprietary and open source tools and technologies. The CCES enables reduced product development cycles.

CCES presents Blackfin and SHARC developers a C/C++ and assembly editing environment, with plug-in support for drivers and services including Ethernet, USB, algorithmic software modules, operating system, file system, etc. CCES offers easy to use, integrated multicore development and debug features.

CCES supports Micrium’s embedded software components such as µC/OS-III Real-Time Kernel, µC/USB Device Stack and µC/FS File System. Hence software developers can access RTOS developed using Micrium’s development process for robust operation.

“CrossCore Embedded Studio was created to give Blackfin and SHARC users the ease of use and features of an Eclipse based IDE along with Analog Devices’ mature, market proven code generation technology, algorithmic and system software libraries.” said David Lannigan, Director of Software Engineering and Tools at Analog Devices. “We worked very closely with Micrium to leverage their technology from CCES and by doing so offer code generation, configuration, and debug capabilities for their operating systems and drivers not offered elsewhere”.

“Micrium is pleased to work with Analog Devices which now resells and supports the world’s most popular real-time kernel (µC/OS-III) as well as some of our most popular RTOS components including µC/USB-Device (our embedded USB device stack) and µC/FS (our embedded file system)”, said Jean Labrosse, Micrium’s CEO, Founder, and President. “ADI’s world-class IDE allows the engineer to easily instantiate and configure these robust and market tested embedded software components thus saving valuable time during development of their products.”

The single-user node locked license is priced at $995.

How to get started using CCES: http://ez.analog.com/docs/DOC-2107
Download a free 90-day trial evaluation software package: http://www.analog.com/cces