For S3C2440: Keil or ADS?

Mar 17, 2009 1 Replies
J

Hi all,



I recently got my ARM9, the SKY2440-v2 with 7" TFT eva kit from developmentboard.net.


As a novice in this field I'd like to get some suggestions on the development environment. I've learned from the the vendor developmentboard.net that both ADS and Keil can be taken as IDE and they provide an evaluation version of ADS1.2 with the kit for free. While I personally would like to look a little bit into Keil, as the ADS eva version expires some day...


So the first thing I'd like to know is which one of Keil and ADS is better to a newbie like me, which one of them could provide a full support to my SKY2440-v2 (Samsung S3C2440, arm920t)?


Any information will be helpful and appreciated, thanks in advance.


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M

ADS is ancient! Not sure if ARM still sells new licenses at all. ADS has been replaced by RVDS long ago. RVDS is a great tool chain, although perhaps not as well suited to the typical MCU customer.

RVDS and MDK (Keil) use the same compiler technology. MDK comes with code templates and examples for /many/ boards and MCU. MDK supports low cost JTAG/SWD debug adapters, where RVDS (currently) offers access to RealView ICE ($$$) and RDI compliant JTAG boxes only. RVDS uses Eclipse now, whereas MDK is based on Keil's uVision IDE.

It is really a question of development style and money, of course.

Regards

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