ARM DS-5 Community Edition Android dev kit released

ARM has just launched their own Android development toolkit, Development Studio 5 Community Edition. The reason for this release is the fact that most of the Android devices are powered by chips that are based on ARM architecture. Here is a list of features of this new toolkit

• Customized Eclipse IDE, with ARM compiler, C/C++ editor and integrated productivity utilities.
• DS-5 debugger
• Performance analyzer for system-wide performance analysis for Linux and Android systems
• Real time simulator (for Cortex A8 and A9)

DS-5 will be available in three different packages as explained below:

• DS-5 Application Edition: Affordable professional solution for native language (e.g. C, C++) Linux and Android user space development. No debug unit required.

• DS-5 Linux Edition: End-to-end software development tool suite for Linux-based systems. It includes bootloader and kernel level debug and trace capabilities when used in conjunction with DSTREAM.

• DS-5 Professional Edition: Leading-edge software development tool-chain for bare-metal, RTOS, and Linux-based projects. It includes all features of the other editions plus the highly-optimizing ARM Compiler.

You can download the toolkit from here but before downloading, make sure that your host is compatible (details are provided below).

Host System Requirements

Minimum Configuration

• Dual core 2 GHz processor or equivalent
• 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended)
• Approximately 1 GB of hard disk space

Operating System

• Windows XP Professional service pack 3 (32-bit)
• Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise (32/64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 (ARM Compiler toolchain only)
• Windows Server 2008 (ARM Compiler toolchain only)
• Ubuntu Desktop Edition 10.04 LTS (32-bit only)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop and Workstation, option Standard (32/64-bit)

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