topic Re: LPCxpresso / KDS merging in Kinetis Design Studio

LPCxpresso / KDS merging

piergiovannigor — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:29:55 GMT

Does someone made some other experiments in merging LPCxpresso and KDS ?

See my "crazy idea" May 27th 2015

Re: LPCxpresso / KDS merging

BlackNight — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:07:09 GMT

Hi Giovanni,

Do you mean this: Merging NXP LPCXpresso IDE with Freescale Kinetis Design Studio, Processor Expert and Kinetis SDK | MCU on Eclipse

So yes, I'm able to use LPCXpresso with Processor Expert and LPC and Kinetis boards, and I can use KDS with NXP ARM devices.

I mean they are both ARM, the toolchains are similar as well the IDE. The KDS one is mostly based on stock Eclipse and other open source components, so easier (in my view) to tweak for any custom devices or needs. The future will tell how the new NXP solution will look like, but as of today, you can merge them together yourself too.

Erich

Re: LPCxpresso / KDS merging

piergiovannigor — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:40:58 GMT

Hi Erich,

yes, I mean this.

The merged system works, but not all is ok, particularly for the selection of devices and drivers for debug probes

The actual situation is as our discussion in last May.

I think that since Freescale and NXP now are the same thing, may be that in the near future there will be an unified tool,

Giovanni