RIDE
Integrated Development Environment

From editing to debugging, RIDE can manage all aspects of product development for any member of the 8051, XA or ST6 families.

Edition

RIDE is based on a fast multi-document editor designed to meet the specific needs of the programmers art. The various methods, menus, commands, and shortcuts are all fully compliant with the Microsoft® specifications for Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT. Classic commands, such as string search and block action, have been added to provide specific and advanced features for the professional developer. A customizable colour-highlighting editor is used to indicate specific syntactic elements as they appear in the source file: keywords, comments, identifiers, operators, and so on. Whether it is 'C' or assembler, the syntax highlighting is keyed to the intrinsic file type. This permits the user to identify quickly and easily, those parts of the code responsible for syntax errors. In the 'C' language, other helpful commands are adapted to language structure, such as "search for matching delimiter" (i.e. bracket, parenthesis, …), 'indenter' or action on blocks, make RIDE a powerful and easy-to-use tool specifically dedicated to providing your embedded solution. Moreover, the different options of the editor may be customized to suit individual preferences.

Project Manager

The project manager creates links between the various files that comprise a project and the tools necessary to create that project. A project is dedicated to a particular target: 8051, XA, ST6 or other microcontroller. The linker manages object and library files, and output format conversion as necessary.

Tree-structured projects ease the management of the most complex applications (bank switching, flash, multi-processor, multi-module…). The 'Project | Make' command directs the integrated "make" utility to build or rebuild the target programs for the current project. To avoid wasting time, each source file will be translated by its associated tool only if any of its dependencies are found to be out of date. Dependency analysis, even of directly or indirectly included files, is automatic.
Options can be defined as global (for all the files) or as local (for a specific node or file). Individual attributes can be set for any file in the project. Similarities between the different tools make migration from one processor family to another immediate and easy, permitting multi-processor projects.

The Message Window

The message window displays all warning, error, and progress messages generated during the processing of files associated with each project.

Clicking on an error string in the message window automatically positions the cursor at the point of that error in the source code window. On-line context-sensitive help is available to help determine possible causes for each error.

The On-line Help

The Online help system is context-sensitive and provides information on nearly all aspects of RIDE. A specific help file is supplied with each tool driven by the IDE ('C' Compiler, Assembler, Linker, RTOS). Online menu hints appear on the status line whenever you select a menu command.

Context Saving

When a project is closed, the whole associated context is saved (open file list, window size and position etc..). Settings associated with the debugger are also saves such as breakpoints, watches etc...

Integrated High-level Debug

RIDE provides a fully integrated source-level debugging environment. All information necessary is derived from the translators used to accomplish each step of the process. This includes mundane aspects such as "path names", and source code specific information such as details of complex data types.

With the simple click of a mouse button, the user can select among several powerful capabilities: simulate, monitor, or emulate. The fast smooth integration afforded by RIDE promotes a feeling of familiarity and ease of use, while providing a level of comfort and efficiency that reduces the most difficult and complex applications to tasks that are easily managed. This seamless progression of the "code-translate-link-debug-test" cycle is the result of perfect communication between the programming tools and the debugger. This is the heart of RIDE.

Integral Simulation

RIDE includes simulation engines for most 8051, XA and ST6 derivatives. The simulator/debugger is cleanly integrated into the presentation windows. A wide range of 'views' can be selected to provide flexible direct examination of all memory spaces as well the all internal peripherals.
The simulation engines perform detailed and faithful simulations (including IDLE or Power down modes), of all peripherals—including interrupt and watchdog events—present on the selected component.

Advanced Features

RIDE provides a rich variety of 'views' into an application. These views or windows are associated with control commands like complex breakpoints or high level trace recording.

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