MIPS ARC MetaWare Development Toolkit

The ARC MetaWare C Compiler is ANSI-C compliant, and supports the relevant subset of the ISO extensions for embedded applications. The C++ compiler supports advanced language features like partial specialization of class templates, and comes with a Standard Template Library next to the standard C++ library. For embedded developers targeting their applications to the ARC processor architecture, the compilers deliver industry-leading code density while maximizing performance. MIPS maintains and runs an extensive suite of internal compiler verification and validation tests, and runs C and C++ validation suites from Solid Sands, Plum Hall, Inc. and Perennial, Inc. prior to every product release.

The ARC MetaWare C/C++ Debugger fully supports the rich set of ARC configuration options and extensions. It comes with a graphical user interface, as well as a command-line interface, to which you can add your own plug-ins to implement new functionality. In its semantic inspection interface you can display your application data in a format most useful and meaningful to you, and its peripheral display interface can decode bits in memory mapped registers for custom displays. The debugger also offers extensive profiling capabilities to tune your application to the selected ARC configuration, or to experiment with multiple ARC configurations to reach the optimal result. Additionally, it comes with the ARC nSIM Instruction Set Simulator that supports the complete range of ARC processors.