ARM Keil MDK Development Kit for ARM-based microcontrollers

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ARM has announced special editions of the Keil MDK Development Kit for ARM-based microcontrollers from Atmel, Freescale, Infineon, Spansion and Toshiba. The offerings are specifically focused on the respective vendors’ devices and enable consumers to use a professional tool.

Keil MDK is the complete software development environment for ARM Cortex-M-based microcontrollers. MDK includes the uVision IDE/Debugger, ARM C/C++ Compiler and comprehensive support for more than 3000 microcontrollers. MDK Version 5 introduced software packs as a way to handle device support, board support and the management of software components. The MDK Professional Edition includes royalty-free middleware components for TCP/IP networking, USB connections, file system access and graphical user interfaces.

The MDK Atmel Edition supports all ARM-based SAM microcontrollers and ships with example applications for numerous Atmel evaluation kits. The MDK Freescale Edition supports all Kinetis microcontrollers and has been selected as a Kinetis-featured IDE by Freescale, making it suitable for developers transitioning from CodeWarrior. The MDK Infineon XMC1000 Edition supports the Infineon XMC1000 series, enabling the transition from 8- and 16-bit architectures to 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 processors, and is available free of charge.