C6808 compiler targets RS08 for capable embedded designs

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, January 12, 2006 - Byte Craft Limited announced today that its C6808 Code Development System, supporting Freescale Semiconductor's advanced 8-bit RS08 microcontroller (MCU) architecture, is now shipping. C6808 is one of the first C compilers for RS08, allowing easy migration of programs written for Freescale
HC05 and HC08 to the high-volume 8-bit MCU platform. C6808 supports all HC08, HCS08, and now RS08 parts in its optimizing C compiler and tools.

"Freescale welcomes Byte Craft Limited's C language support for RS08 architecture in C6808," said Jeff Bock, global marketing manager for Freescale's consumer and industrial microcontrollers. "Byte Craft's expertise in code generation for small architectures takes optimal advantage of RS08 and HCS08. Byte Craft's C6808 complements RS08 in capable embedded designs by keeping development costs low."

The C6808 Code Development System includes an optimizing C cross-compiler with an inline macro-assembler, support libraries, full program optimization with the BClink optimizing linker, and the BCLIDE (Integrated Development Environment). The compiler produces industry-standard executables and code files, including the Byte Craft Limited .COD file format and ELF/DWARF. The .COD file and ELF/DWARF contain everything an emulator needs for C source-level debugging.

C6808 supports ISO TR 18037 named address spaces and fixed-point math.
C6808 implements the full C language within the limits of the
hardware: any potential application can be implemented in C with greater ease and optimization than in assembly.

Thread support in C complements the RS08 interrupt architecture.
Threads can model hardware interrupt arbitration in software. They typically allow faster, smaller code and less RAM consumption than conventional asynchronous programming.

More information is available at http://www.bytecraft.com/rs08.