Toshiba has announced that the TrueSTUDIO development environment from Swedish embedded systems specialist Atollic is available for its range of ARM926EJ-S and ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers.

Two versions of the environment can be supplied: Atollic TrueSTUDIO Lite, which, while completely free-of-charge, delivers high levels of functionality; and the low-cost Atollic TrueSTUDIO Professional, which provides further development capabilities.

Both are available for download.

TrueSTUDIO is based on the commonly used ECLIPSE IDE framework and is mainly intended for embedded systems developers using the C/C++ and assembler languages, True STUDIO also introduces UML for graphical modelling.

A C/C++ editor plus advanced assembler and makefile editors offer colour-coded syntax and other features such as expand/collapse of code blocks are intended to speed application development.

The tool  supports Toshiba’s ARM9 products, such as the TMPA910CRBXBG, TMPA911CRXBG, TMPA912CMXBG, TMPA913CHXBG and TMPA900CRXBG.