RVDK-ST Feature Comparison

Feature	Products
Feature	RVDK-ST	RVDS	RealView MDK
General
Compilation Tools	RealView® v2.1	RealView v3.1	RealView v3.1
Development Environment	RealView Debugger (RVD)	Codewarrior® v5.7 or Eclipse	µVision3®
Debugger	RVD v1.7	RVD v3.1	µVision Debugger
Simulator	RealView ISS	RealView ISS	µVision Simulator
RTOS Kernel Library			RL-ARM
Third-Party OS Support		Segger EMBOS	Segger EMBOS
Compilation Tools
C Compiler
C++ Compiler	Optional
Thumb 2 Support (Cortex-M3)
Output Format	Proprietary	ELF/DWARF, Intel HEX	ELF/DWARF, Intel HEX
Device Support
STR71x		ARM7 Core Support Only
STR73x		ARM7 Core Support Only
STR75x		ARM7 Core Support Only
STR91x		ARM9 Core Support Only
STM32		Cortex-M3 Core Support Only
ARM Core/MCU	STMicroelectronics Only (As listed above)	All ARM Cores	ARM7, ARM9, and Cortex-M3 MCUs
Board Support Packages	Only for devices listed above		For above devices and a wide number of boards and vendors.
Example Programs		Generic ARM examples which show how to use the ARM CPU Core extensions.	Extensive projects which can be used as project templates.
Debugging
JTAG Support	Via RealView IDE-ME	Via RealView ICE	Via ULINK2®
Serial Wire Debug/Trace			Via ULINK2
ETM Trace		Via RealView Trace	Via Third-Party Tools
Third-Party Support
OS/Kernel Aware	Configurable	Configurable	For RL-ARM Kernel
Simulation
Instruction Set
Startup Code
Interrupts
On-chip Peripherals
On-chip Memory
Target Visibility	User-Defined	User-Defined	Pre-Defined Dialog Boxes
Peripheral Views
Logic Analyzer
Execution Profiler
Code Coverage
Instruction Trace
Support
Technical Support	Via STMicroelectronics	Via ARM (12 Months)	Via ARM (12 Months)