Category Archives: new product

REXIS Logo Revealed!

Posted on December 3, 2018 by richard

REXIS (Real-time EXecutive for Intelligent Systems) has been released, and now we have a branding logo! RAWRRRR! Thanks to the awesome graphic designer Kurt, from Fantastic Realities Studio!

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Synchronous Message Passing and REXIS Benchmarking

Posted on November 19, 2018 by richard

If you have read the blog on REXIS Examples, or the REXIS documentation, you may have noticed that REXIS supports synchronous message passing API, in addition to the more common asynchronous messaging with mailboxes. Synchronous message passing is not a … Continue reading →

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REXIS Examples

Posted on November 7, 2018 by richard

REXIS is both ImageCraft’s RTOS and a component of the JumpStart IoT Connectivity Suite. It’s powerful yet easy to use. This post is from an excerpt of the forthcoming REXIS User Guide, containing examples to demonstrate REXIS features. As some users … Continue reading →

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Making Tedious/Complex Things Easy

Posted on November 2, 2018 by richard

The development world is full of IDE, and “everyone” uses GCC anyway. So how can ImageCraft be better? One way we can achieve excellency is by making tedious or complex things easy to do. For example, there are different floating … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Memory and REXIS

Posted on October 22, 2018 by richard

According to some coding guidelines such as MISRA, it is “common wisdom” that embedded firmware should not use dynamic memory, e.g. malloc/free, as it introduces non-deterministic behaviors. Many firmware engineers have taken this to heart.  So is it surprising that … Continue reading →

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JumpStart C++ for Cortex Semihosting

Posted on October 14, 2018 by richard

JumpStart C++ for Cortex’s built-in debugger now supports semihosting. Your firmware can now use printf calls for diagnostic output without tying up a serial port.

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Exciting Times Ahead

Posted on January 24, 2013 by richard

We are about to release ICCAVR version 8.10.00, with support for CRC generation and production ELF file. The latter allows users to specify all the special control bytes (fuse, lockbits etc.) in the C source file and have a single … Continue reading →

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Another Milestone – We Now Have Our Own Debugger

Posted on December 4, 2012 by richard

Since establishing ImageCraft in 1994, we were one of the first, if not the first embedded compiler to include a Windows IDE. In 2009, our V8 release moved our IDE to the latest technological base when we adapted CodeBlocks. However, … Continue reading →

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Cortex Compiler Alpha Review

Posted on March 27, 2012 by richard

The ImageCraft Cortex V8 compiler is now in good enough shape to show to the world. Please click on the “ARM Cortex Compiler Tools” button on our site http://imagecraft.com to visit the Cortex compiler page and to download the Alpha … Continue reading →

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A Baby Step Toward ICC for ARM Cortex

Posted on September 1, 2011 by richard

The “M Profile” of the ARM architecture may very well be the 8051 of the 2010s as the Cotex M0, M3 and now the M4 cores are licensed by just about every silicon microcontroller makers. This presents a nice opportunity … Continue reading →

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