[sdiy] Atmel releases Studio6

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Brombaugh" <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net>
To: "synthdiy diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Atmel releases Studio6


>
> On Mar 4, 2012, at 7:40 AM, KD KD wrote:
>
>> It supports Cortex M4! Time for ST to do something...
>
> Looks nice. Now if Atmel would just sell a Cortex M4 part then maybe we 
> could talk. The SAM4S16C appears to be the only one in the line and it's 
> not available in the distribution channel yet. ST, Freescale, NXP and TI 
> all have M4 parts for immediate delivery though.
>
> This does raise a good point though - ST doesn't provide their own free 
> development tools for their ARM Cortex M microcontrollers, but rather 
> vectors you off to 3rd-party products. These are either expensive 
> general-purpose professional-quality tools like IAR and Keil, or else 
> reduced functionality demo versions invariably based on Eclipse/GCC. 
> Nothing against any of these, but it would be nice to have something as 
> clean and well supported as the Atmel tools are reputed to be.
>
> Eric
>
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