Does anyone know if KEIL plans to support ARM9 in the future?
Errrm ... Keil?
Yes. Jon
Can you give any more details?? When?
Planned for Oct./Nov. 2004.
That's great!! Will KEIL develop a new IDE/compiler or will it be uVision with GNU tools(like the arm7). This market needs more competition as the current vendors produce less than stellar products at inflated prices.
We will develop a new compiler (not based on GNU). Actually, we already have a new compiler (for ARM7). It is currently in BETA release but is included with the V1.3 ARM tools. http://www.keil.com/demo/eval/arm.htm Jon
John, this is great news! What about the IDE? Will it be something completely different than uVision? Any clue what the price range might be?
The IDE is uVision3 which includes lots of new features and debugging capabilities (the logic analyzer and execution profiler are pretty cool). The price range has not changed for the ARM tools. It's still about 2K USD/EUR for the DK-ARM. But, once the Keil ARM compiler is fully released (no longer in BETA) I would anticipate a price increase. Jon
What is the latest word on support for ARM9?
Which device do you need. The software has already generic ARM9 devices in the selection list and supports it from the assembly level. However, most *real* microcontrollers are still ARM7. ARM9 microcontrollers are very new and hard to get. Reinhard
The Atmel AT91RM9200. This seems to be a hot item with other embedded engineers also. It has a lot of the real microCONTROLLER features along with a MMU. I'm not in a big hurry. It's just that I already use Keil for our 8051 uControllers and love it.
It will come in the near future.