Altium has released its TASKING VX-toolset for ARM Cortex-M Series that adds support for the Cortex-M0 alongside existing support for Cortex-M1 and Cortex-M3 processors. The new release is aimed at both ARM Powered device developers and Altium Designer users. It's based on Altium’s Viper C compiler technology and a new debugger, integrated in the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment. Like Altium’s other Viper-based compilers, the new TASKING VX-toolset brings together optimized code, small footprint and fast execution.
The new TASKING VX-toolset is the first embedded ARM compiler with static code analysis against the CERT C secure coding standard. Static code analysis can be applied early in the software development process, or on incomplete and incorrect code bases, to identify unsafe code without needing subsequent test-cases. The new release supports source code debugging on hardware through a third-party JTAG link, specifically J-LINK from embedded software company Segger. The supported J-Link variants are the J-Link ARM, J-Link ARM Pro and J-Trace Cortex-M3.
The TASKING VX-toolset for ARM technology also features MISRA C code checking, profiling through code instrumentation and run-time error checking capabilities.
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