Crossware Enhances ColdFire Suite with Support For Freescale MCF532X and MCF537X Chips

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crossware (www.crossware.com), a leading embedded software tools developer, has enhanced its ColdFire® Development Suite by adding comprehensive support for Freescale Semiconductor’s MCF532x and MCF537x ColdFire microprocessors.

Developers using these powerful embedded controllers can now work within Crossware’s totally integrated and easy to use GUI-based environment to get their programs up and running quickly and efficiently thereby speeding up the whole development process.

Crossware’s support includes a full set of Code Creation Wizards, a full set of peripheral register views, which can be displayed during simulation and debugging, and a completely new feature ‘register tool-tips’ which pop-up when the mouse hovers over a value in a register view and displays the name of the register and lists by name all of its bits and the value of each bit.

“This is the most comprehensive support that we have ever provided for a family of microprocessors,” said Alan Harry, founder and CEO of Crossware.

The MCF532x and MCF537x families are based on the V3 ColdFire Core, which delivers performance up to 211 MIPS at 240MHz. They feature an extremely wide range of on-chip peripherals including a human-machine interface with flexible connectivity for consumer and industrial applications.

The MCF532x family includes an on-board liquid crystal display controller for applications with a graphical user interface. The LCD display controller supports images up to 18 bits per pixel (bpp). Crossware’s ColdFire Development Suite features example programs which drive, for instance, the 320x240 QVGA display available for the Cobra5329 starter kit. These programs show how to display images with 8bpp, 18bpp and 24bpp.

The Crossware ColdFire Development Suite provides a complete and extremely user friendly development environment for the ColdFire family of microprocessors and microcontrollers with its advanced C/C++ compiler, libraries, wizards, simulator, source level debugger and the optional FireFly USB BDM debugger interface.