MIPS launches development tools for ‘$45 per seat’

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Looking to meet the needs of those developing products for the IoT, Imagination has launched a low cost development environment for its MIPS M-class and I-class CPU IP cores. According to the company, the package comes at approximately $45 per seat, which it says is ‘an unprecedented price for professional grade tools’.

Steve Evans, VP of business operations for MIPS at Imagination, said: “We’re seeing a lot of demand for low-cost tools, especially for IoT applications where customers are facing a combination of constrained budgets, aggressive timelines and large software teams requiring quality tools.

“The Codescape and Eclipse enabled Bus Blaster probes provide an ideal solution. Since the software toolchain and debugger interfaces are developed and deployed by Imagination, customers can be confident the tools will help them deliver high-quality products on time and on budget.”

The package includes:

  • The Codescape Debugger and Codescape for Eclipse IDE: these freely available tools can be used with Bus Blaster JTAG probes and provide the ‘front-end’ user debug interfaces.
  • Bus Blaster JTAG debug probe: an economical, high-speed debug adaptor
  • Codescape MIPS Essentials software development kit, a complete GCC toolchain said to provide the program compiling, building and library tools and utilities necessary to develop code for MIPS-based designs.