Software

Actel’s SmartFusion Now Supported by Keil

Recently Actel's SmartFusion family has added by Keil to its Keil MDK-ARM microcontroller development Kit. SmartFusion integrates an FPGA, hard ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem (MSS) and programmable analog. The latest release of MDK-ARM supports the ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller sub-system on the SmartFusion device and includes set-up files, device-specific views, and example projects. MDK features the industry-standard compiler from ARM, the Keil Vision4 IDE, the fully...
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An open-source package-management system for Windows

by Mary Jo Foley Microsoft is continuing its efforts to attract more open-source developers to make their wares available on Windows. The latest component of that strategy is CoApp, a new open-source package-management platform that one of the company’s developers is starting to assemble. The goal of CoApp is to assemble in a single place a “community-driven package-management system” and associated tools to encourage the development and maintenance of open-source applications on...
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