CMSIS Version 5 will focus on improvements and further industry adoption. The license will be changed to the permissive Apache 2.0 license, to enable contributions from interested third parties.
Support for the new ARMv8-M architecture will be added as well as improvements for ARM Cortex-A/Cortex-M based hybrid devices (with a clear focus on Cortex-M interaction).
The CMSIS-RTOS API and RTX reference implementation with get several enhancements:
CMSIS-Pack will get additions for generic example projects, project templates, and multiple download portals. It will also adopt the Flash loader technology from IAR Systems.
As announced on embedded world, the development repository of CMSIS Version 5 is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/ARM-software/CMSIS_5
ARM invites all interested parties to contribute and/or to provide feedback for the CMSIS project using GitHub.
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ilg: I will. Working with XMC4800 right now and DAVE (which is an integrated IDE on eclipse) from Infineon. I am tired of old style development in C on uCs and think that is is time to really switch to C++ in the coming projects (Cortex M4 are powerfull enough and 256kByte+ ram is sufficent for a lot of stuff. CMSIS++ seems a long way to go and I may choose an intermediate way right now (project concerns), but I hope that CMSIS++ or something equivalent (near Posix) will arrive in the next months/years.