en-US/Devel-Embedded.xml
John J. McDonough
jjmcd at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 18 16:59:47 UTC 2010
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Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at Aidan.(none)>
Date: Thu Mar 18 12:59:38 2010 -0400
Embedded development beat
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<secondary>Section</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>
- Fedora &PRODVER; includes a range of packages to support
- development of embedded applications on various
- targets. There is broad support for the AVR and related
- parts as well as for the Microchip PIC. In addition, there
- are packages to support development on older, less popular
- parts such as the Z80, 8051, and others. For a more complete
- description refer to <citetitle>Packages
- for embedded development on the wiki</citetitle> available at <ulink type="http"
- url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packages_For_Embedded_Development"></ulink> .
+ Fedora &PRODVER; includes a range of packages to support development of
+ embedded applications on various targets. There is broad support for the AVR
+ and related parts as well as for the Microchip PIC. In addition, there are
+ packages to support development on older, less popular parts such as the
+ Z80, 8051, and others. For a more complete description refer to
+ <citetitle>Packages for embedded development on the wiki</citetitle>
+ available at <ulink type="http"
+ url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packages_For_Embedded_Development"></ulink>
+ .
</para>
-
+ <section>
+ <title>avrdude </title>
+ <para>
+ <application>avrdude</application> has been updated from 5.8 to 5.10. The
+ new release includes support for additional part numbers as well as a
+ number of additional programmers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Additional information:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ 5.9 changes - <ulink
+ url="http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/avrdude-dev/2010-01/msg00071.htm">http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/avrdude-dev/2010-01/msg00071.htm</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ 5.10 changes - <ulink
+ url="http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/avrdude-dev/2010-01/msg00092.html">http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/avrdude-dev/2010-01/msg00092.html</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>piklab</title>
+ <para>
+ <application>piklab</application> has been updated to version 0.15.7.
+ </para>
+ <para>Major changes include:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Support for PICkit2V2 has been removed
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ ICD2 support has been greatly improved, including support for
+ dsPIC33 devices
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Toolchain and programmer selection have been moved to the project
+ manager
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ and much more.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For complete details, refer to the Piklab change log at <ulink
+ url="http://piklab.sourceforge.net/changelog.php.">http://piklab.sourceforge.net/changelog.php.</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>mcu8051ide </title>
+ <para>
+ <application>mcu8051ide</application> has been upgraded to version 1.3.3.
+ In addition to bugfixes, this release includes the following new features:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ RS232/UART debugger, tool intended for debugging in real hardware
+ applications
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Symbol list (added on the right panel)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Assembler has now support for assigning register names to
+ constants. So since this version you can write code like this:
+ <programlisting>
+ABC EQU R0
+ MOV ABC, #55h ; <- This will be compiled as "MOV R0, #55h
+ </programlisting>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>gnusim8085 </title>
+ <para>
+ Fedora 13 includes <application>gnusim8085</application> version 1.3.6.
+ This new release is now internationalized, and includes a number of
+ usability improvements and new features. For a complete description,
+ refer to the announcement at <ulink
+ url="https://launchpad.net/gnusim8085/+announcement/5242.">https://launchpad.net/gnusim8085/+announcement/5242.</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>avr-binutils </title>
+ <para>
+ <application>avr-binutils</application> has been updated to 2.20. There
+ are a number of new features as well as bug fixes. Refer to the project's
+ NEWS file for details at <ulink
+ url="http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/binutils/NEWS?rev=1.87&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src&only_with_tag=binutils-binutils-2_20.">http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/binutils/NEWS?rev=1.87&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src&only_with_tag=binutils-binutils-2_20.</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>avr-gcc </title>
+ <para>
+ <application>avr-gcc</application> has been updated to 4.3.3, along with
+ <application>avr-gcc-c++</application>. Refer to the gcc section under
+ Developers in this document for the details of this upgrade.
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
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