Motorola is offering a complimentary licence of the award-winning Metrowerks CodeWarrior for DSP56800 integrated development environment (IDE) with the purchase of a DSP56800 evaluation module

Motorola is offering a complimentary licence of the award-winning Metrowerks CodeWarrior for DSP56800 integrated development environment (IDE) with the purchase of a DSP56800 evaluation module (EVM) or a one-year Metrowerks Standard Embedded Support Package. The promotional offer, available for a limited time, is intended to help designers streamline application development and reduce time-to-market for embedded systems based on 56800 controllers while saving thousands of dollars.

This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The hybrid controllers in the 56800 family are ideal for a multitude of control, telephony and other applications requiring highly integrated DSPs with the ease of use of an MCU and the flexibility enabled by integrated Flash memory.

The promotional offer makes the Metrowerks CodeWarrior for DSP56800 IDE and the 56800 architecture more available to a larger audience of embedded systems design engineers, from small-to-large companies, in a wide variety of markets.

'This Metrowerks CodeWarrior for DSP56800 promotional offer is confirmation of Motorola's efforts to ensure the availability of high quality software development tools for the general market', said Debbie Drysdale, vice president and general manager, Motorola's DSP Standard Products Division.

'Motorola is focused on making it as easy as possible for customers to design with the 56800 hybrid controllers'.

Metrowerks' CodeWarrior tools provide navigation, editing and debugging capabilities for DSP56800-based embedded systems.
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It includes an intuitive graphical project management and build system, highly optimised C compiler that is engineered to ensure small code size and fast execution time, assembler, linker, graphical source level debugger and an advanced instruction-set simulation that enables software design ahead of hardware.

As an independent subsidiary of Motorola, Metrowerks provides the industry's broadest development tool support for Motorola architectures.

With the purchase of one of the following DSP56800 EVM kits, customers will receive the Metrowerks CodeWarrior for DSP56800 IDE: DSP56F824EVM, DSP56F801EVM, DSP56F803EVM, DSP56F805EVM, DSP56F807EVM, DSP56F826EVM or DSP56F827EVM.

EVMs are available now through authorised distributors for $299.00 USD; the DSPF824EVM is available for $150.00 USD (all prices are suggested list price).

In addition, customers who purchase a Metrowerks one-year Standard Embedded Support Package are also eligible for the complimentary Metrowerks CodeWarrior for DSP56800 IDE.

Metrowerks technical support is available through the purchase of the one-year Standard Embedded Support Package, priced at $500.00 USD (suggested list price).

It also allows customers to receive free product updates and substantial discounts off new version renewals.

This offer is available until 31st October 2001.