Media Alert

30 Jun 2011

Keil Supports Freescale Kinetis K50

Cambridge, UK: Keil^™ announces the immediate support for the Freescale Kinetis^™ K50 MCU family in the Keil MDK-ARM.

The K50 Family is pin, peripheral and software-compatible with other Kinetis microcontrollers and provides designers with an Analog Measurement Engine consisting of integrated OpAMPs, TriAMPs and high-resolution ADC and DAC modules. The family also features IEEE^® 1588 Ethernet and hardware encryption, full-speed USB 2.0 On-The-Go with device charger detect capability and a flexible low-power segment LCD controller with support for up to 320 segments. Devices start from 128KB of flash extending up to 512 KB flash.

MDK-ARM

The latest version of MDK-ARM includes set-up files, device-specific views, compilation features, and intrinsic instruction support for the Freescale Kinetis K50 MCUs that take advantage of the DSP and floating point capabilities of the ARM Cortex^™-M4 processor.

Keil MDK-ARM features the industry-standard compiler from ARM, the Keil µVision^®4 IDE/debugger, the full featured RTX RTOS, and sophisticated analysis tools. It is specifically optimized for single-chip, high performance devices such as the Kinetis Cortex-M4 family, and analysis tools as well as target debugging with advanced trace capabilities for all Cortex-M processor-based devices.

Availability

The MDK v4.21 is available now.

You may download MDK v4.21 as an Evaluation or as a product Update.

Further information is available at www.keil.com/freescale

About Keil

The Keil products from ARM include C/C++ compilers, debuggers, integrated environments, RTOS, simulation models, and evaluation boards for ARM, Cortex-M, Cortex-R4, 8051, C166, and 251 processor families.

About ARM

ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, video engines, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.

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