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MIPS® Navigator ICS



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The MIPS® NavigatorTM ICS (Integrated Component Suite) supports all MIPS32® and MIPS64® processor cores and is fully integrated with the CodeSourcery SG++ GNU-based Toolchain for MIPS, providing a complete development environment and a rich set of software utilities that are easy to install and use.

The Eclipse environment has rapidly become the embedded industry standard for integrated development environments (IDEs) with software tools and plug-ins from many vendors integrating sophisticated editing, compiling, debugging and program management tools. MIPS Technologies has leveraged this power and extensibility as a control environment and user interface for developing and debugging MIPS-BasedTM embedded systems.

The MIPS Navigator ICS fully supports the MIPS System NavigatorTM probes for low-level debugging and hardware bring-up. It organizes and presents the information to the user in a more logical way, for faster debugging of both hardware and software.

There are two versions of the CodeSourcery SG++ toolchain integrated into MIPS Navigator ICS. One version can be used to develop and target bare-iron systems that have no operating system or have a traditional RTOS. The other version is for GNU/Linux targets. This allows a wide range of embedded systems to be developed using this environment.

MIPS Navigator ICS completely automates the installation process for the development environment, including the Eclipse-based IDE, the toolchains, probe software and the MIPSsimTM Instruction Set Simulators. Once installed, it provides sample projects to get the developer started rapidly on new MIPS-Based embedded development projects.

Key Features

  • Includes industry standard Eclipse-based CDT and plug-ins
  • Includes the CodeSourcery SG++ GNU-based Toolchain for MIPS for both bare-iron targets and GNU/Linux targets
  • Provides a complete control center for debugging with MIPS System Navigator probes
  • All on-chip and off-chip probe trace features are integrated with the IDE
  • Supports multi-core debug with multiple MIPS cores on the EJTAG chain
  • Includes MIPSsim CPU Instruction Set Simulators
  • Supports all MIPS32 and MIPS64 cores, including the 74KTM and 1004KTM cores
  • Optional plug-in available for Hot Spot Analysis (HSA) that graphically displays code execution results using the zero-overhead PC sampling capability of certain MIPS cores and the MIPS System Navigator probes
  • Optional debug plug-ins available for the ThreadX-aware RTOS debugger and the Viosoft Arriba Linux debugger
  • Optional debug plug-in available for the Viosoft Linux Event Analyzer (LEA)
  • Node locked PC or floating licenses available
  • Runs on Windows or PC Linux
  • Software integrated into a single, easy to use installation