This discussion has been locked.

You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Evaluation or Free compiler ?

Note: This was originally posted on 16th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

I've been working on porting various ARM DSP optimizations to different open source libraries to reduce power consumption on ARM devices. Unfortunately while I'm happy with gcc, a lot of commercial users complain that things like ASM code don't link when used with the ARM ltd. compiler. Since I don't have access to it I can't look into it. This has led to a few commercial products shipping with poor performance and battery life.

Is it possible to get access to the official ARM compiler/assembler somehow for testing? I'm a student with no money doing this for fun, so paying for it isn't going to work, but I don't need to actually do development, just testing so maybe theres some free tool available for doing this?

Thanks for any help.

Vladimir Murzin over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 18th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

I've been working on porting various ARM DSP optimizations to different open source libraries to reduce power consumption on ARM devices. Unfortunately while I'm happy with gcc, a lot of commercial users complain that things like ASM code don't link when used with the ARM ltd. compiler. Since I don't have access to it I can't look into it. This has led to a few commercial products shipping with poor performance and battery life.

Is it possible to get access to the official ARM compiler/assembler somehow for testing? I'm a student with no money doing this for fun, so paying for it isn't going to work, but I don't need to actually do development, just testing so maybe theres some free tool available for doing this?

Thanks for any help.

I'm not sure. but you could use [url="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite_edition.html"]Sourcery G++ Lite Edition[/url]

P.S. See also [url="http://forums.arm.com/index.php?showtopic=14489"]http://forums.arm.com/index.php?showtopic=14489[/url]
Cancel
Vote up 0 Vote down

Cancel
Michael Giacomelli over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 27th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

I'm not sure. but you could use [url="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite_edition.html"]Sourcery G++ Lite Edition[/url]

Thats a link to gcc. As I said, I already have gcc working great. I'd like to add support for the ARM commercial compiler.

P.S. See also [url="http://forums.arm.com/index.php?showtopic=14489"]forums.arm.com/index.php

If I understand correctly, that would basically let me assemble my code using the ARM tools, but not actually compile or test a finished library due to the code size limitations. Surely theres something a little better then this out there? I'm not interested in evaluating ARM's tools, I want to add support for them to various libraries people want to use them with.
Cancel
Vote up 0 Vote down

Cancel
Martin Weidmann over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 28th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

You can get a RVDS eval - fully featured but time limited.

[url="http://www.arm.com/products/tools/software-tools/rvds/index.php"]http://www.arm.com/products/tools/software.../rvds/index.php[/url]
Cancel
Vote up 0 Vote down

Cancel
Jolie Eid over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 28th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

RVDS is great, it includes: profiler, debugger, compiler, along with a workbench IDE.
It is easy to use and available as an evaluation product.
However, as ttfn mentioned, the license is of limited time: 30 days (unfortunately)

I am also a student and interested in ARM ISA, and ARM processors features. So I wish we'll find some free software with no limitations!
If you find any, please post the source on the forum
Cancel
Vote up 0 Vote down

Cancel
Joseph Yiu over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 29th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

You can use Keil Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK).
It is limited to 32KBytes (enough for most small projects), but there is no time limited.
[url="https://www.keil.com/arm/demo/eval/arm.htm"]https://www.keil.com/arm/demo/eval/arm.htm[/url]

It use the same assembler syntax and C directives as RVDS. (It is the same compiler, with different command line options and switches).

It is not necessary to buy a debugger (e.g. ULINK2). Many development kit comes with a USB to JTAG chip so you can just plug the board to the USB port of the computer. (Might need to install plugin).

If you don't have any real hardware, Keil MDK has instruction set simulator so you can simulate you code.
Cancel
Vote up 0 Vote down

Cancel
Jim ARM over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 4th November 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

Why not try [url="http://www.coocox.org/CooCox_CoIDE.htm"]CooCox CoIDE[/url]? Wish could give you some help.
Cancel
Vote up 0 Vote down

Cancel
Yao Qi over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 5th November 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

Thats a link to gcc. As I said, I already have gcc working great. I'd like to add support for the ARM commercial compiler.

You can get support from CodeSourcery if you choose Sourcery G++ Professional edition or Standard Edition. In Sourcery G++ Professional Edition, there is an Eclipse-based IDE, debugger, and simulator.
Cancel
Vote up 0 Vote down

Cancel