New solutions offer one IDE for Arm and RISC-V

SEGGER has announced the new Embedded Studio – V8.10. This cutting-edge, multi-platform IDE now also supports multiple architectures with a single setup. The same software can build and debug programs for RISC-V and Arm targets.

A single download and install is required on all supported platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux) and all supported host CPUs (both Intel and Arm silicon). Developers can produce solutions that build, program, and debug multi-architecture devices containing Arm and RISC-V cores using one instance of the IDE – it simply works!

"The best multi-platform IDE on the market just got even better," says Dirk Akemann, marketing manager at SEGGER. "Our emRun runtime and emFloat floating-point libraries, the smart SEGGER Linker, and the highly optimizing C/C++ SEGGER Compiler work seamlessly to maximize performance and minimize code size. Being our own most demanding customer, we continuously and extensively use, update, and enhance this software in-house. We encourage everyone to try it themselves using our friendly licensing option."

With the company's Friendly License, the solution is available for unlimited evaluation and educational and non-commercial purposes, free of charge, with no restrictions regarding code size, features or duration of use.

Other enhancements include new code-completion mechanisms, context-sensitive suggestions, and diagnostics. Tooltips provide context-sensitive details about every part of the code. Warnings, errors, and diagnostics are available while writing code without waiting for the project to build.

The program has direct integration with J-Link. It also supports virtually any debug probe through its GDB Server protocol integration. Also, direct integration for ST-Link is now included.

While J-Link debug probes provide unparalleled debug performance, an extensive feature set, and support for thousands of devices, the native integration of ST-Link makes it easy to get embedded development started on typically used ST evaluation boards.