Author name: Richard Man

Dear customers of ImageCraft, After starting to regain ground in 2010-2011, the Semiconductor sector seems to have stalled again in 2012. Nevertheless, some of our customers are now telling us that their clients are asking them to resume work on products that have not been touched in the last 5 years, so I do see that as a sign that recovery is happening. Lets hope 2013 is a more positive year for all. ImageCraft’s big news is the release of our ARM Cortex-M and the integrated debugger. Our V8 IDE now has all the major features you would expect from […]

ICCv8 for Cortex (V8.00.00) has now been officially released. You can download it from our website. From the readme [ FEATURES THAT STILL NEED TO BE IMPLEMENTED ] – M0 Instruction Set not supported – M4 Instruction Set not supported – PRO optimizations not enabled – Cortex-M Bitfield instructions not used – Bitband memory alias – Debugger CHANGE LOGS: 8.00.00 August 24th, 2012 – Open c:\iccv8cortex\examples. cortex\examples.workspace for some sample projects – ARM CMSIS header files under c:\iccv8cortex\include\CMSIS, the compiler driver automatically includes this directory (along with c:\iccv8cortex\include\) in the search list. – NXP header files under c:\iccv8cortex\include\<vendor name>\ You

Whoosh! — That’s the sound of 2011 flying by. 🙂 Here at ImageCraft, we would like to wish you all Happy Holidays and hopefully a very Prosperous New Year. May your code run correctly the first time, and your hardware designs perform without any faults. AVR Compilers In 2011, we released a new USB licensing dongle for the V8 AVR compiler. “Eating our own dog food”;  it contains an AVR board utilizing our own firmware. It does not require additional USB drivers, and is also much more flexible than the older V6/V7 dongles. We have enhanced the AVR compiler code