I recently purchased a C8051F040 Developement Kit from Silicon Laboratories. I'm using the IDE (Version 2.7) I recieved with the Developement Kit, with the IDE I also recieved full versions of the macro assembler and linker and a 4-KB limited evaluation version of version 6.1 of the C51 compiler.
At the university I'm at I found a full version of Keil C51 V5.50a (there isn't currently any funds available for the new version).
The header files of the c8051f040 doesn't seem to be compatible with V5.50a. Are there header files available for v5.50a? This however is fixable, are there any other fixes needed for using this compiler.
Thank you before hand for any advice and information.
Actually figured it out:
The reason it couldn't open the header file is that v5.5 doesn't support filenames longer than 8 characters.
While I turned up all the software cabinets in the whole faculty (consisting of 5 4 floor buildings) looking for the missing security device, I found a version 6 (with its dongle) of the compiler another department bought 3 years ago.
Compiled and ran I few programs I already wrote in SDCC and adapted for Keil. (I abandend SDCC due to "yet to be developed" function)
Thanks for all your assistance.
"I turned up all the software cabinets in the whole faculty (consisting of 5 4 floor buildings) looking for the missing security device"
So not only is it a very old version, but it also hasn't been used for ages! Not surprising that they don't want to fork-out for a new one, then? :-(
"I abandend SDCC due to 'yet to be developed' function"
When was that? I think there's recently been a new release...?