TASKING C166 VX tools

The new product offers substantial performance gains over traditional C166 development tools - initial benchmarking of the TASKING VX-toolset for the C166/ST10 microcontroller family indicates that it provides an average improvement of 45% in code compression and 24% in code speed optimization. This high performance is enabled by next-generation "Viper" C compiler technology.

Altium’s new TASKING VX-toolset for C166/ST10 also offers a new debugger that provides full support for multi-core application development, plus toolset integration into the popular Eclipse platform as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The VX-toolset gives the user all the necessary development tools available within one state-of-the-art and industry-standard IDE, with the option to plug-in additional modules from third parties. Altium has also extended the Eclipse IDE with configuration options for the C166 tools and the target application. Wizard functionality helps users set up embedded projects and configuration for debugging on hardware.

Altium’s new TASKING VX-toolset for C166 and ST10 supports all popular Infineon Technologies C166/XC166 and STMicroelectronics ST10/Super10 derivatives as before, but it is also ready to support new family members when they become available. Devices with an on-board multiply-accumulate coprocessor (MAC) will also benefit from the new compiler through code-generation from C source level – a unique feature for this class of compiler.

Altium’s TASKING VX-toolset for C166 and ST10 toolset is a complete, integrated embedded software development toolset consisting of:

ISO C++ compiler, scalable to EC++

C compiler, ISO C'99 compliant, with integrated 'MISRA C' enhanced code checking

Assembler/linker/locator

C/C++ libraries, run-time libraries, floating point libraries

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on Eclipse

Debugger integrated into Eclipse, with three execution environments:
Simulator

ROM Monitor debugger, using serial IO

On-Chip (OCDS) debugger, using JTAG

Altium’s TASKING VX-toolset for C166 and ST10 will be available in three targeted bundles – Standard, Professional and Premium Editions – allowing developers to choose the best fit for their application development activities.

For existing TASKING C166/ST10 users wanting to upgrade to the new VX-compiler toolset, a conversion utility and special upgrade pricing is available from Direct Insight.