I have been designing with ARM Cortex microcontrollers since 2014, I have used NXP devices and their free software (MCU-Xpresso, based on Eclipse).
The latest version fails to connect to the device on my new laptop, neither on Windows10 or Linux, so I'm running it on Linux on an old laptop with one broken USB socket and a duff battery. The new version of MCUXpresso crashes regularly.
NXP Microcontrollers have become as rare as hens' teeth, and I bought some Renesas devices thinking that their free software (e2Studio) also being based on Eclipse would be quick to learn and familiar. After three days over the holidays, (on a laptop which runs MCUXpresso successfully), I have got nowhere with e2studio both on Windows and Linux - different arcane errors on each.
I'm wondering if - perish the thought - I might be better off actually buying some development software. Any recommendations?
(I do worry that, several hundred pounds later, I might be in exactly the same place but with more expensive arcane error messages)
The latest version fails to connect to the device on my new laptop, neither on Windows10 or Linux, so I'm running it on Linux on an old laptop with one broken USB socket and a duff battery. The new version of MCUXpresso crashes regularly.
NXP Microcontrollers have become as rare as hens' teeth, and I bought some Renesas devices thinking that their free software (e2Studio) also being based on Eclipse would be quick to learn and familiar. After three days over the holidays, (on a laptop which runs MCUXpresso successfully), I have got nowhere with e2studio both on Windows and Linux - different arcane errors on each.
I'm wondering if - perish the thought - I might be better off actually buying some development software. Any recommendations?
(I do worry that, several hundred pounds later, I might be in exactly the same place but with more expensive arcane error messages)