ICCV8 for AVR Released

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After a year+ of researching and various false starts, and after surviving through the biggest downturn our industry has seen, and after some hard work by our consultant in porting the CodeBlocks IDE, and finally on the account of my birthday 🙂 ICCV8 for AVR is here. You can download the demo from our site. The Purchase page is up. The upgrade from V7 equivalent version is priced at $75 until July 1st. Thank you for your support. Now I can go to sleep 🙂

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ICCV8 for Cypress PSoC1 (M8C Core) PRO Released

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We have just formally released ICCV8 for Cypress PSoC1 PRO. You can download the 45 day fully functional demo from our website. In 2009, Cypress and our company signed an Agreement that allows Cypress’ PSoC Designer software to include a license to our ICCM8C STD compiler. The STD compiler is found to generate code that is approximately 15%-20% smaller than the previous available free compiler from another vendor.  The PRO compiler is fully compatible with the STD compiler so no code change is needed. Currently the code size reduction of the PRO compiler over the STD version is about 10%.

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Next-Gen IDE, Code::Blocks pre-Alpha

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Ancient History When we started ImageCraft back in 1994, I don’t think any embedded compiler has an IDE at the time. We released our first Windows IDE before just about everyone else. It was a Windows 3.1 program, if I remember correctly. Around 2001 we released the V6 IDE with compatibility with 32-bits Windows. Then around 2005 we released the V7 IDE with a slightly more modern look. IDE is a funny thing – it’s the first thing that potential customers see, but our customers have always told us that in the end, quality code generation is the number one

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Crisis and Opportunity

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The Chinese words for crisis is 危機 (weiji). As with most Chinese word-objects, it is made up of two independent words, 危(wei) / danger and 機(ji) / opportunity. And so the global financial crisis also presents us with some opportunities to renew ourselves. (..click to read more…)

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Competing with “Free” Software

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Tough Survivors As I said in the last blog entry, independent embedded C/C++ compiler companies are becoming rare birds. Of the independent companies that support multiple platforms, besides us ImageCraft, there are Green Hills (US), IAR (SE), Cosmic (FR), Rowley (UK), and… um, I think that’s it. Since being bought up, Hiware/Metrowerks primarily target Freescale chips; Hi-Tech clearly will concentrate only on Microchip’s PIC; Keil, despite being an “ARM company,” still sell tools for the 8051, C166 etc. probably because the money is good, but who knows how long that will last?… Most  if not all compiler companies were started

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