Install the GNU ARM Toolchain Under Linux

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st May 2009 17:19 UTC

There is a crying demand among mobile phone vendors for talented ARM programmers, and there's plenty of work to be done. This article provides a starting point for understanding the software side of embedded systems development by describing one set of commonly used tools: the GNU ARM toolchain.

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Comment by strcpy

by strcpy on Thu 21st May 2009 18:16 UTC

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2009-05-20

I actually went to see how easy this was with the rebranded GNU tools that this CodeSourcery delivers. I wasn't too convinced.

The article itself was nothing more than an advertisement. I've come to expect more from IBM's developerWorks.

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Modified harvard architecture?

by theosib on Thu 21st May 2009 19:57 UTC

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2006-03-02

This article makes a big deal out of ARM being a modified harvard architecure where I and D caches are separate but they work from the same main memory. Isn't that how ALL modern processors are?

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RE: Modified harvard architecture?

by SamuraiCrow on Thu 21st May 2009 21:15 UTC in reply to "Modified harvard architecture?"

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2005-11-19

The PIC microcontroller is a true Harvard architecture. It has separate banks of memory for data and code and all data ports for most of its pins.

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