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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.

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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.
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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.
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