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ARM Realview Dev.suite

Kasper Jepsen

Hello,

Can anyone clearify what the difference are in Keil MDK and Arm realview dev.suite?

Kasper

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    **** This is not an authoritative answer ****

    It is *much* easier to get a standard MCU up and running using MDK!

    RVDS is a bare-bones tool chain. In a way comparable to GCC being a
    bare-bones tool chain. Both are focussed on target
    architecture, not on actual devices. In RVDS you have to write
    your own device/board support package. RVDS cleary targets vendor
    specific SoCs, not so much off-the-shelf MCUs. It is, of course,
    possible to use RVDS for MCU development.

    Both, MDK and RVDS sue the same underlying compiler technology.
    Generated code is very similar[1] for the same CPU if the same
    compiler version is used.

    It is *much* easier to get a standard MCU up and running using MDK!

    RVDS supports high end ARM architectures, such as v6 and v7-A/R. This
    is turned off for MDK at this point. I am sure that when deemed
    strategically useful, that it will be merely a compiler switch to
    enable this when rebuilding MDK's version of armcc.

    The RealView Debugger supports multi-core debugging. I provides a well
    documented system for adding new device/board descriptions. None of
    these features are required by most MCU customers.

    RVDS uses an IDE based on Eclipse. A nice gimmick is the scatter file
    editor with syntax highlighting and a graphical view!

    It is *much* easier to get a standard MCU up and running using MDK!

    MDK simulates the actual device, RVD only the core itself[2].

    RVDS Pro includes an incredible profiling tool.

    RVDS is available for Linux. The Windows version of RVDS comes with a
    "make" utility.

    Building Linux applications with RVDS is a supported flow.

    Did I mention this: It is *much* easier to get a standard MCU up and
    running using MDK!

    Regards
    Marcus
    http://www.doulos.com/arm/

    Footnotes:
    [1] The only reason I don't say "identical" is that I don't have hard evidence to back this up.

    [2] Well, not quite: The simulators in RVDS do include some commodity peripherals (UART, timer) but are not modelling a standard MCU.