TriCore tools aid automotive applications

Altium has released version 2.2 of its Tasking TriCore VX-toolset.

Altium has released version 2.2 of its Tasking TriCore VX-toolset.

Enhanced with next generation Viper compiler technology, version 2.2 offers a vast array of new features aligned to Infineon's 32bit TriCore microcontrollers, including latest variants TC1115 and TC1796.

The TriCore VX-toolset has also been tested and qualified with Infineon's new Debug Access Server (DAS) solution, developed to replace Infineon's low-level OCDS drivers.

This provides on-chip debugging functionality with the Tasking CrossView Pro debugger on TC1796 evaluation boards on Windows-XP systems.

Altium was the first to integrate support for the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association's MISRA C programming guidelines into its Tasking compilers.

The new TriCore VX-toolset supports last year's MISRA-C:2004 update as an additional option, along with support of the original MISRA-C:1998 guidelines.

As with the latest Tasking toolset for Infineon's C166/XC166 family, the new TriCore VX-Toolset offers increased configurability of MISRA-C:2004 compliance checking.

It provides developers greater flexibility to determine whether code is required or recommended to comply with MISRA-C:2004, depending on the company's standards and project requirements.

"Version 2.2 of the new TriCore VX-toolset clearly demonstrates Altium is continuing to set new standards as a tool partner, particularly in terms of code optimisation and execution speed", said Gerd Punsmann Tool Line Manager at Infineon Technologies, Automotive, Industrial and Multi-Market business group.

"With high performance automotive applications top of mind, Altium incorporated many additional optimisation suggestions from our key accounts, including improved loop unrolling and conditional instructions, in the compiler to drive optimisation performance levels even higher".

"We anticipate, under specific conditions, code performance improvements up to 25% can be achieved".

"We are delighted this latest version of Tasking's TriCore VX-toolset supports Infineon's new products, in particular TC1115 and TC1796, which means the end user can start developing and testing code for these TriCore derivatives immediately", he said.

A fast and compact TCP/IP stack reference design has been added as a sample project to the new toolset which enables developers to test various networking functions in a TriCore based application, and is ready to run on Infineon's TC1130 TriBoard.

The functionality includes HTTP and FTP servers, as well as SMTP and DHCP clients.

The Tasking TriCore VX-toolset is a complete, integrated embedded software development toolset consisting of the Tasking EDE, C/C++/EC++ compiler, assembler, linker/locator and CrossView Pro OCDS and simulator debugger.

The product is available for PC/Windows and Sun/Solaris platforms.

Prices start at Eur 4490 for the C/C++/EC++ compiler and simulator debugger package for PC/Windows.

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