What is the difference between the Offline and the Online Installer for MCU 10.5

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What is the difference between the Offline and the Online Installer for MCU 10.5

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jorge_plascencia
NXP TechSupport
NXP TechSupport

CodeWarrior MCU 10.3 Beta



Online installer
This image contains the CW MCU v10.5 core tools and an installer, which assumes your computer has internet access. During the installation process the core tools will be installed and you will be asked to select the Freescale architecture support you want installed. The installer will automatically access the internet, download the necessary archives and install them in your CodeWarrior directory.

Click here to start the download. This archive size is 400 MB.

Offline installer
This image contains the complete CW MCU v10.5 tool suite and an installer, which assumes your computer does NOT have internet access. All data needed by the installer will be downloaded now and no other download will be performed.

Click here to start the download. The total archive size is 1.3 GB

Note:

The Evaluation Edition license is automatically installed with your product and you do not need to register it. This license allows you to develop projects as Professional Edition within the 30-day evaluation period. After 30 days, the license works as Special Edition license (free permanent, but feature limited) which supports unlimited assembly code; up to 64KB of C code for ColdFire+, V1 ColdFire, DSC, Kinetis L Series, RS08, S08 derivatives; up to 128KB of C code for Kinetis K Series and V2-V4 ColdFire derivatives; and up to 512KB for Qorivva and PX derivatives.

 

Note:

The Special Edition license is automatically installed with your product and you do not need to register it. This license allows you to develop projects with unlimited assembly code; up to 64KB of C code for ColdFire+, V1 ColdFire, DSC, Kinetis L Series, RS08, S08 derivatives; up to 128KB of C code for Kinetis K Series and V2-V4 ColdFire derivatives; and up to 512KB for Qorivva and PX derivatives.

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rgd04c
NXP Employee
NXP Employee

Hi Jorge,

The difference is that when you download the Offline installer you get support for all architectures(ColdFire®, ColdFire+, DSC, Kinetis, Qorivva, PX, RS08, S08 and S12Z) at once and that means the installer is bigger (1.23GB)

If you donwload the online version you can later select which architecture you need and only donwload that ones. For example, if you only need S08 and want a faster download go for the online version. If you need to add more devices in the future just update by clicking Help/Install new software.

Regards,

Gonzalo