The great thing with CodeWarrior development Suites is that you can develop almost in any programming environment out there, even if it's assembly.   In this occassion, I ran into a Reference Manual regarding a StarCore ABI (Application Binary Interface)   This document defines a set of standards to ensure interoperability between conforming CodeWarrior for StarCore software components, such as, compilers, assemblers, linkers, debuggers, and assembly language code. These standards cover run-time aspects as well as object formats to be used by compatible tool chains from StarCore and third-party tools developers.   A benefit of this standard definition is interoperability of conforming tools so that users can select the best tool for each phase of the application development cycle, rather than being constrained to using an entire tool chain. Another benefit is compatibility of conforming libraries. Us programmers can build compatible binary libraries and assembly code libraries and be assured of their continued compatibility over time.   So if you are ready for a new experience at programming (in case binary interfaces are your thing) start along with this Reference Manual!  

CodeWarrior Development Studio is a complete integrated Development Environment (IDE) that provides a highly visual and automated framework to accelerate the development of the most complex embedded applications.   I now present you a manual that describes the CodeWarrior IDE and debugger features that are common across all the CodeWarrior products, in which you can find many interesting things for people who's just starting to break down CodeWarrior great features.   Within the overview of this manual you will also find: • Release Notes • Documentation Structure • Manual Conventions • CodeWarrior IDE Overview   Download CodeWarrior and get to see the Reference Manual right away!  

The documentation regarding Power Architecture Processors (version 10.1.1) already shows the great features that Code Warrior offers to this embedded-systems develompment tool kit powered for both Windows and Linux users. This release note provides important information for users of CodeWarrior Development Studio for Power Architecture 10.1.2, upgrading and expanding the Quick Start sessions and improving its content to help us programmers with this great developing suite, from its installation to the final process of debugging and testing our work!   If you are into programming with CodeWarrior suites, this document, (just updated, by the way!)  it's really important for you to become familiar with this release‟s supported targets, new features, errata with workarounds, and other useful information. The new features described in this document are new relative to the last general availability release, CodeWarrior for Power Architecture 10.1.1.   Get to read the document here! and if you have further questions, I'll be happy to help out! You can always visit Freescale for further information!

  It's true, coding isn't always an easy job, specially when it comes to tools you are not familiar with. I'm not an expert atCodeWarrior, but I really enjoy developing embedded systems or at least parts of them. Obviously, there will be a bunch of error messages depicting on the IDE at the beginning. (great feature for some, altough C and C++ don't show lexic nor command mistakes right away).   While trying to pull off a set of code lines I had been working on, there usually come along a bunch of funy error messages deploying, such as  "illegal 'friend' declaration" or "function has no prototype".   Well, I recently found an updated  BUILD TOOLS MESSAGE REFERENCE MANUAL at Freescale's web page. The Build Tools Message Reference Manual documents the messages generated by your CodeWarrior build tools. This information helps you fix problems the build tools encounter as they build your projects. Note that this manual documents just those messages that are generated by compiler, assembler, and linker.   It shows a broad list of error messages and how to fix them, so go check it now, useful as it can be!

We talked of RTOS a little while ago. This time it's turn for The SmartDSP Operating System (OS), and more specifficly, SmartDSP API.   But, what is the SmartDSP OS? It is a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) that, in addition to providing drivers for the MSBA8100 processor, also runs on the following StarCore DSP-based processors: MSC815x MSC825x PSC9131   The StarCore CodeWarrior (CW) Development Studio includes SmartDSP OS royaltyfree source code. Further, SmartDSP OS has a high-level Application Programming Interface (API) that lets users develop integrated applications for StarCore processors. This Reference Manual documents SmartDSP OS API.   Having this API updated and available for processors MSC815x/MSC825x/PSC9131, possibilities of coding within CodeWarrior features become even broader. Start trying it up now!!!

This reference manual describes the contents of the Embedded Warrior Library for C++. The C++ Standard library provides an extensible framework, and contains components for: language support, diagnostics, general utilities, strings, locales, containers, iterators, algorithms, numerics, and input/output. Additionally, EWL C++ offers extra facilities forinput/output, threads, and other components. Libraries included within this reference manual are:   The EWL C++ Library Overview of thismanual describes the language support library that provides components that are required by certain parts of the C++ language, such as memory allocation and exception processing.   “LanguageSupport Library” discusses the ANSI/ISO language support library.   Diagnostics Library elaborates on the diagnostics library that provides a consistent framework for reporting errorsina C++ program, including predefined exception classes.   General Utilities Libraries discusses the general utilities library, which includes components used by other library elements, such as predefined storage allocator for dynamic storage management.   Strings Library discusses the strings components provided for manipulating text represented as sequences of type char, sequences of typewchar_t, or sequences of any other “character-like” type.   Localization Library covers the localization components extend internationalization support for character classification, numeric, monetary, anddate/time formatting and parsing among other things. EWL_Utility utilities used for non standard headers.   Overview of EWL C++ Debug Mode describes the Embedded Warrior Library for C++  debug mode facilities.   Hash Libraries describes nonstandard “hash” libraries.   Metrowerks::threads is a reference to threads support in the Embedded WARRIOR  Libraries.   EWL std::tr1 is a reference about items that are proposed for inclusion in the Embedded Warrior Library   C++ Switches, Flags and Defines is a chapter on the various flags that you can use to create a customized version of the EWL C++ Library ...and many more resourceful subjects are contained!   Get ready to update your CodeWarrior Development Tools for EWL C++ programming! View manual here!

The CodeWarrior C and C++ compilers use the Embedded Warrior Library (EWL) for C to provide and extend the libraries documented in the ISO/IEC standards for C. EWL C also offers facilities described in the POSIX specification and some common application programming iwnterfaces (APIs) from UNIX operating systems.   Intrinsic functions generate in-line assembly code instead of making a call to a library function. Intrinsic functions generate less object code and perform faster than their regular counterparts. In some cases these functions generate just a single assembly instruction.Get the EWL for C   n o w !   For the EWL C++ reference libraries you can also find:   The EWL C++ Library Overview of thismanual describes the language support library that provides components that are required by certain parts of the C++ language, such as memory allocation and exception processing.   “LanguageSupport Library” discusses the ANSI/ISO language support library.   Diagnostics Library elaborates on the diagnostics library that provides a consistent framework for reporting errorsina C++ program, including predefined exception classes.   General Utilities Libraries discusses the general utilities library, which includes components used by other library elements, such as predefined storage allocator for dynamic storage management.   Strings Library discusses the strings components provided for manipulating text represented as sequences of type char, sequences of typewchar_t, or sequences of any other “character-like” type.   ...and so on! Find out what the rest of the libraries have got to give you to improve and update CodeWarrior tools! Check out the manual here!

There have been some questions around here about Freescale's CodeWarrior Tool, it's features and what it's possible to do with it (and there are tooons of things!!!).   Regarding the last post about MCU V10.x, i found this FAQ guide that can be really useful, specially if we are beginners or we'd like to get everything clear and loud. Hope it's as useful to you as it is for me!!!   This FAQ Guide lists most frequently asked or most anticipated questions about Microcontrollers V10.x. In this document, the FAQs are divided into various categories based on the Microcontrollers V10.x feature they are associated with, such as Installation, IDE, Editor, Project Management, Project, Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Debugger, Debugger Shell, USBTAP, Ethernet TAP, and Profiling and Analysis Tools.   CHAPTER DESCRIPTION IDE and Installation Lists IDE related FAQs Project Management Lists project management related FAQs Project Lists project related FAQs Compiler Lists compiler related FAQs Linker Lists linker related FAQs Debugger Lists debugger related FAQs Debugger Shell Lists debugger shell related FAQs Profilling and Analysis Tool Lists profiler related FAQs   Take a look here!      

Actually, this document here shows the quick starts for any freescale's V10, but specifications are depicted for V10.2 Microcontrollers. This quick tart also explains how to install the CodeWarrior Development Studio for Microcontrollers V10.x software (totally necessary) on Windows and Linux operating systems, and how to use the CodeWarrior IDE to create, build, and debug a project.   It also includes special cases, like how would it be done for Special product Editions, hardware and software specifications and further notes that will make the "creating something new" process easier! Not only a challenge, but a fun one!   Want to get it started already? QUICK STARTS    

We are now showing a getting started guide from Freescale. This manual introduces you to the interface ofCodeWarrior for Microcontrollers V10.x. It describes basic components of the Microcontrollers 10.x IDE and the CodeWarrior development process.   You can check the CodeWarrior quick reference guide or visit freescale webpage for further info!   This manual also: • Provides an overview of Microcontrollers 10.x and Eclipse IDE. It also provides system requirements for installing Microcontrollers 10.x.   • Describes stages involved in developing an application using CodeWarrior IDE.   • Provides an overview of the Microcontrollers 10.x interface and its components, and describes how to work with the different components of the Eclipse interface.   • Describes how to create and debug projects in Microcontrollers 10.x.   What are you waiting for? Check out this manual now!

CodeWarrior development suites allow ready access to any or all of the CodeWarrior products contained within each suite, which means you get freedom to design across Freescale's extensive silicon portfolio.   CodeWarrior development tools provide the capabilities required by every engineer in the development cycle, and this suites right here make easier the filter process for you to know which product list meets your needs, 100% flexibility to choose the required purchasing model.   This means you can license the entire portfolio of CodeWarrior tools within the suite you purchase. Each suite also contains all functionality of the products in the suites below it.   Purchasing and accessing these tools now is easier and more affordable!!!       CodeWarrior suites include:   •           CodeWarrior Professional Suite: Fullfeatured development suites •           CodeWarrior Standard Suite: Selectively featured development suites •           CodeWarrior Basic Suite: Compiler upgrades to special editions, Linux applications editions and flash programmers •           CodeWarrior Special Editions: Featurelimited development tools   Flexible purchasing models are shown here! And you can also check the quick reference guide for further info!

The purpose of this document is to help understand and create Flash configuration files for the Flash Programming interface.   A Flash Configuration file is an XML format file. Its file extension is always “XML”. It is possible to open and edit this file with any text editor. This file is a “handmade” file and is not created automatically with any tool.   Some microcontrollers can address the flash in multiple ways ─ banked and paged. Therefore, multiple overlapping devices can be defined for one microcontroller. Each of them is defined in its own Flash Configuration XML file.   The *.XML files contain microcontroller- dependent parameters and applets to handle internal flash modules. Applets are small programs which are loaded into the on-chip RAM. They will run at well-defined speed (depending on the microcontroller clock speed) and can collect data about the state of the memory modules, can control the memory modules (including erasing and programming). There are three applets for each flash module: http://pcdn.500px.net/4130499/a271bcea97e80e8d223b3338b27c9f116cdd98a3/3.jpg• INFO applet ─ Collects information about the module. • CONTROL applet ─ Controls and erases the module. • PROGRAM applet ─ Programs the module.   Parameters are passed to these applets at fixed memory addresses, which are relative to the workspace. *.XML files are written by Freescale and are delivered within the installation.   Keep learning and pull off your own applet with this Application Note!

This document explains how to use the Flash Tool Kit to support additional flash devices on the Flash Programmer for CodeWarrior Development Studio for Microcontrollers V10.0 by creating new programming algorithms and support files.   This application note applies only to the external flash devices used with ColdFire V2/V3/V4 processors.     This document includes these topics.   • Create a flash device XML configuration file • Create new target task • Create external flash algorithm • Flash programmer examples • Create new flash utility • Flash utility examples • Troubleshooting flash programmer   The application note we are here suggesting provides you the necessary info to add devices to the FreescaleCodeWarrior Flash Programmer, along with some specifications that might be really useful depending on each CPU setup and the files and documentation that is required.   Many manufacturers use the same flash device algorithms, so it is likely that flashes can be programmed using the algorithms included with the CodeWarrior software. In addition, many manufacturers produce devices compatible with those of Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), or STMicroelectronics (ST).   Anyways, enjoy and keep finding interesting content with DebuggerGuys!   Adding Device(s) to CodeWarrior Flash Programmer for Microcontrollers V10.0

This Quick Start explains how to install service pack updater archive for your CodeWarrior software running on the Windows or Linux platform.   Support for new devices and/or updates can be added to the CodeWarrior Development Studio for Microcontrollers v10.x (CW MCU10.1) directly from the Internet (Online mode) or from a downloaded archive (Offline mode).   This document describes both the Offline and Online modes of updating CodeWarrior MCU v10.1 and a troubleshooting update. These instructions will show you how to manipulate that list to ensure that you can focus on the right URL for the CodeWarrior tools update.The topics covered in this document are:   • Updating Online: Lists the steps required to complete the update when you are connected to the Internet.   • Troubleshooting Updates:  Lists the troubleshooting updates.   • Updating Offline: Lists the steps required to complete the update when you are not connected to the Internet.   Start catching up with this updater archive!

If you recently acquired the CodeWarrior Development Suite, you'll find this document very useful; it provides access and technical support to a multitude of CodeWarrior products.   This quick start also explains how to register your CodeWarrior Development Suite (Section A). Section Bexplains how to activate and install one of your products. Section C describes other items that come with your CodeWarrior Development Suite, and Section D discusses the available purchase options. Section E contains the Technical Support Certificate. As you may not have access to fully license all the CodeWarrior products, keep the following Web link handy, as it lists all the products in the differently priced levels of the CodeWarrior Development Suites (Basic, Standard and Professional). www.freescale.com/CodeWarriorSuites Check it out now! CodeWarrior Development Suite Quick Start