Jonkoping, Sweden, November 10th 2015 – Atollic® today announced the launch of the new TrueSTUDIO Lite, a completely free, commercial-quality IDE without code-size or device usage limitations. This gives the ARM development community a high-quality, free-of-charge tool that everyone can standardize on. The tool is free to download, use and share. No registration is required.
The industry at large is suffering from the fragmentation caused by a vast amount of similar development tools with little differentiation. They all offer basic edit/compile/debug capabilities but often suffer from poor usability experiences due to the tool being less tightly integrated than a unified professional tool chain. Others may be locked to a single chip vendor which limits the breath of target support. The lack of standardization often leads to duplication of efforts, code portability challenges, and increased cost for middleware suppliers and development consultants.
For the first time, the ARM development community will be able to standardize on a completely free tool, with full commercial quality, no code size limitations, and not locked to a single microcontroller family or supplier. TrueSTUDIO Lite is based on an open standard tools platform of Eclipse/GCC/GDB and is extended and enhanced with commercial-quality modifications, getting started wizards, and extensive target support for ARM-based microcontrollers. The result is a high-quality, polished, and stable development environment.
Magnus Unemyr, VP sales and marketing comments, “We believe TrueSTUDIO Lite fills a critical gap in the industry and will bring an end to the fragmented tools market. We firmly believe that developers and chip vendors alike will welcome it since it brings a standardized tool into the market that everyone can use and adopt. We’re also bringing a “software as a service” subscription model into the high-end embedded tools market which dramatically lowers any financial barriers to accessing the advanced capabilities of a professional tool chain.”
A standardized tool will benefit the entire community, not just developers. With developers using a single, free tool, microcontroller vendors will no longer need to commit huge resources to develop their own free tools with ‘me-too’ functionality. And additionally, middleware vendors will be able to reduce their porting and maintenance costs.
In combination with the launch of the free TrueSTUDIO Lite, Atollic is introducing a low-cost upgrade path to TrueSTUDIO Pro, the company’s flagship development tool which includes static code analysis, and advanced debugging capabilities such as event-, data- and instruction-tracing, live variable watch, crash analysis, and RTOS-aware debugging. The Pro edition also includes full technical support. Developers will now have the option to add these capabilities with a low-cost, “pay as you go” subscription option.
Pricing and availability
Atollic TrueSTUDIO Lite can be downloaded at no charge from http://www.atollic.com.
Atollic TrueSTUDIO Pro starts at 49 EUR / $59 per month for a 12-month prepaid subscription license.
About Atollic
Atollic provides professional and highly integrated software development tools to the global embedded systems market. Atollic cooperates with many of the world’s largest microcontroller manufacturers and has many partners in related fields. The company’s products are distributed via an extensive international distributor network in over 30 countries. Atollic also offers expert software development services, primarily in the automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial and consumer markets. For more information on Atollic, please visit www.atollic.com.
Atollic and Atollic TrueSTUDIO are registered trademarks of Atollic AB. ARM and Cortex are trademarks or registered trademarks of ARM Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of the respective owners.
